stem to stern

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(from) stem to stern

completely We overhauled the car from stem to stern.

Related vocabulary: from top to bottom

Etymology: based on the literal meaning of from the stem to the stern ( from the front end to the back end of a ship)

See also: stem, stern

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Each carried a strange banner swung from stem to stern above the upper works, and upon the prow of each was painted some odd device that gleamed in the sunlight and showed plainly even at the distance at which we were from the vessels. A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context The second night after the drowning of the mate the little yacht was suddenly wracked from stem to stern. The Return of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context The electric light went out suddenly, and two enormous waterspouts broke over the bridge of the frigate, rushing like a torrent from stem to stern, overthrowing men, and breaking the lashings of the spars. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context			steam in steam off steam out steam out of steam up steamed steamed up steaming steel steel against steel oneself for steely gaze steep steep in steer steer away from steer clear steer clear of steer for steer into steer through steer toward stem stem from stem the tide stem to stern step step aside step back step back on step between step by step step down step forward step in step inside step into step into shoes step into the breach step off step on step on it Step on it! step on the gas step on toes step out step out into step out of line step outside step over step right up			Stem cells Stem cells Stem cells Stem Cells for Safer Medicines Stem cells from Human Exfoliated Deciduous teeth stem christie STEM Collaborative Action Plan stem correction stem from stem ginger stem gingers Stem Girdling Roots Stem leaf stem lettuce stem line-template stem parallel Stem pith Stem pith Stem pith Stem pith stem reptile Stem Rot stem rust stem rust stem rust Stem sawfly Stem stitch stem the tide stem the tide Stem to Forward Freeboard Points stem to stern stem turn stem turns stem vowel stem, brain Stem-and-leaf diagram stem-cell leukemia stem-cell research stem-cell research stem-cell research Stem-clasping stem-like stem-like stem-like stem-like Stem-loop stem-loop binding protein Stem-Loop Destabilizing Element stem-winder stem-winders stem-winding stem-winding Stem/Progenitor Cell Stemalit Stematil Stematil STEMB stembuck stembucks STEMC STEMCAP

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