As nouns the difference between stern and stem is that stern is nautical the rear part or after end of a ship or vessel or stern can be a bird the black tern while stem is the stock of a family.

Stern boat etymology. Sternpicker plural sternpickers A gillnet boat that deploys the net from the stern of the boat. Stern The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat. Also a deck above the ordinary deck on the aftermost part of a ship.

A horizontal dividing bar in a window. The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. Transom plural transoms A crosspiece over a door.

Nautical The flat or nearly flat stern of a boat or ship. Stern of a boat. The part opposite to the stem or prow.

Also the rudderObs Naut The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel or of a boat. The post of management or directionAnd sit chiefest stern of public weal Shak The hinder part of anything. Stern or aftermost deck of a ship c.

The planking that forms the floor or seating in that area. Vessel structures are largely bilaterally symmetrical meaning they have mirror-image left and right halves if divided sagittally. The name mayang comes from payang a type of seine used by local fishermen.

We are overwhelmed with transom resumes. Stjrn a steering or a doubtful AS. Major portion of mayang hull is built using teak wood.