Index of English words, starting with "st"

(1) - Sternpost (n.) A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.

(1) - Sternson (n.) The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.

(1) - Sternum (n.) The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.
(2) - Sternum (n.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.