[AFTER- 6.]
1. ‘A farce or any smaller entertainment after the play.’ J. Also fig.
1806. Mem. of R. Cumberland, i. 296. Eight and twenty nights it went without the buttress of an afterpiece.
1860. L. Hunt, Autobiog., vi. 127. He could bring the tears into your eyes for some honest sufferer in an afterpiece.
1863. Mary Howitt, trans. Bremer’s Greece, I. vi. 202. But the seven years’ tragedy of Greece was still destined to have a bloody afterpiece.
2. Naut. The heel of a rudder.
