English Dictionary

from stem to stern

prep_phrase

(nautical) Over the full length of a ship or boat, from the front end of the vessel to the back end. / (idiomatic, by extension) From front to back; from one end to the other end.

The crew worked diligently from stem to stern.

意味（1）

(nautical) Over the full length of a ship or boat, from the front end of the vessel to the back end.

My father, as nurse said, did never fear, / But cried ‘Good seaman!’ to the sailors […] / Never was waves nor wind more violent; / And from the ladder-tackle washes off / A canvas-climber. ‘Ha!’ says one, ‘wilt out?’ / And with a dropping industry they skip / From stem to stern.

意味（2）

(idiomatic, by extension) From front to back; from one end to the other end.

[T]he horse was the vainer brute of the two; he was far worse beflounced, bebonneted, and bemantled, than any fair lady. . . . [T]his poor animal from stem to stern was swamped in finery.