escutcheon, skeg

resolute, forceful, defiant, stiff, steely, feisty, harsher, strident, unsmiling, stoic, placatory, scolding, tough, schoolmasterly, dour, disciplinarian, schoolmarm, truculent, curt, scowls, uncompromising, belligerent, gruff, levelheaded, fatherly, assertive, forthright, scornful, obstinate, meek, bellicose, merciless, fearsome, admonitory, menacing, swift, imperious, admonitions, polite, officious, blunt, bluntest, conciliatory, unbending, gentle, erring, spirited, timid, haughty, insolent, fearless, gunwale, severest, stoical, brusk, tactful, firebrand, confrontational, pugnacious, doughty, teacherly, vociferous, reprimands, reproachful, glowering, genial, taskmaster, motherly, impassive, withering, terse, snarly, undismayed, sarcastic, bow, quizzical, stout, redoubtable, punishments, implacability, loutish, punitive, taciturn, sidelong, fiery, stolid, bold, workmanlike, imperturbable, indecorous, petulant, discipline, brusque, humorless, brash, churchillian, lantern jaw, admonishment, provocative, roundhead, unsubtle, pragmatic, prow, top, chimney, fore, forehead, bows, butt, head, noses, archway, bar, blade, pedestal, pediment, pier, roof, spout, stairway, wooden, antlers, sternest, sterner, implacable, austere, harsh, inflexible, peremptory, wrathful, grim, inexorable, manly, morose

., abaft, aft, afta, aftermost, astern, austere, broadside, disciplinary, escutcheon, galley, gentle, glory hole, harsh, lazaretto, no-nonsense, outboard, outboard motor, poop deck, puppis, quarterdeck, rough, rudder, scull, sternpost, sternwheeler, stroke, taffrail, unmitigable, visage, yet

ship

back, rear

aft, after part, arse, ass, austere, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, demanding, derriere, exacting, fanny, fundament, grim, hind end, hindquarters, implacable, inexorable, keister, nonindulgent, poop, posterior, prat, quarter, rear, rear end, relentless, rump, seat, strict, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting