| Sternway (n.) The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost. Thesaurus Entries Brownian movement, advance, angular motion, ascending, ascent, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backset, backsliding, backward motion, backward step, career, climbing, course, current, descending, descent, downward motion, drift, driftage, driftway, ebbing, flight, flow, flux, forward motion, headway, lapse, leeway, mounting, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, passage, plunging, progress, radial motion, random motion, reaction, recession, recidivation, recidivism, reentry, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, relapse, retroaction, retrocession, retroflexion, retrogradation, retrogression, retrusion, return, rising, rollback, run, rush, set, setback, sideward motion, sinking, soaring, steerageway, stream, subsiding, throwback, traject, trajet, trend, upward motion, way |