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1356 Pipe Roll, 30 Edward III m. 39^v Afterskolles.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. iii. 173 Þe formest partie [of the brain] hatte prora a latyn, as it were ‘þe foreschipe’; and þe hindemest hatte puppis, as it were ‘þe aftirschipe’.

1487 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 42 After meson sailes.

1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 193 Afterskulles to the same [Bote].

1599 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 167 Right with the maine mast or after-quarter of the shippe.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 2 All the plankes that reach to the after end of the ship.

1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xxii. 93 Hall your after-misen bowlins.—Hawl, Hawl, Hawl.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxxii. 283 The after-hold, where he deemed himself more secure than on the deck above.

1799 Naval Chron. 2 423 To Veer, let fly the sheets of the three after masts.

1822 J. Fincham Direct. laying off Ships 31 The part before it [sc. the greatest transverse section] is called the fore body and that abaft it the after body.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xliii. 218 Archy..whose post was near the after-hatches.

1898 R. Kipling in Morning Post 11 Nov. 5/1 An Admiral..goes up on the after-bridge.

1933 J. Masefield Bird of Dawning 209 An open locker against the after-bulkhead caught his eye.

1960 Pop. Mech. Jan. 204 Like the planking on the fore deck, the after-deck planking is kept flush with the forward face of the deck beam.

2000 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 7 Feb. 24 He was wrapping the afterguy on to the drum of a winch and winched his thumb onto the drum as well.