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▸ adjective:  Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
▸ adjective:  Grim and forbidding in appearance.
▸ noun:  (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
▸ noun:  (figurative) The post of management or direction.
▸ noun:  The hinder part of anything.
▸ noun:  The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To steer, to direct the course of (a ship).
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.
▸ noun:  A bird, the black tern.
▸ noun:  A surname.

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