There were times when the whole crew refused their duty; and we of the afterguard were twice got under arms—being the first time that ever I bore weapons—in the fear of mutiny.
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Afterguard
Synonyms for "afterguard"
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Yet from something in the outline and carriage, Billy took him to be, and correctly, one of the afterguard.
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This is his sixth Cup campaign but his first as skipper, a position he inherited after the helmsman Russell Coutts, Butterworth’s longtime alter ego in the afterguard, bolted from Alinghi in 2004.
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