stern chaser

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   a naval gun able to fire astern at a ship in chase

   Broadernaval gun

Questions about stern chaser

What does stern chaser mean?

stern chaser means "a naval gun able to fire astern at a ship in chase".

Is stern chaser a common word?

stern chaser is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.