Usually means: Toward the back of ship.
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  1. abaft: Merriam-Webster
  2. abaft: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abaft: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abaft: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abaft: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abaft, abaft: Wordnik
  7. abaft: Wiktionary
  8. abaft: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. abaft: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. abaft: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Abaft, abaft: Dictionary.com
  12. abaft: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Abaft: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Abaft: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. abaft: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. abaft: Rhymezone
  17. Abaft: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. abaft: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. abaft: FreeDictionary.org
  20. abaft: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. abaft: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. abaft: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. abaft: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. abaft: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abaft: Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Abaft: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ABAFT: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (abaft)

adverb:  (nautical) On the aft side; in the stern.
adverb:  (nautical, obsolete) Backwards.

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