Fore-and-aft definition

fôrən-ăft
The definition of fore and aft is an expression that means backwards and forwards.

If your car gets stuck in a snow bank, you may rock it fore and aft.

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Parallel with the length of a structure, such as a ship or house; running lengthwise.
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In, at, or toward both ends of a ship.
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From the bow to the stern; lengthwise.

Sails rigged fore and aft.

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At, in, or toward both the bow and the stern.

Lifeboats located fore and aft.

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(naut.) From the bow to the stern; lengthwise or set lengthwise, as sails.
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(nautical) From the bow of a ship to the stern; lengthwise.
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At both ends of a vessel.
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Everywhere on a vessel.
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(nautical, of the orientation of the sails of a ship) Parallel with the keel, that is, going from bow to stern (as opposed to square-rigged).
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From the bow of a ship to the stern; lengthwise.
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In or at the front and back.
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Fore-and-aft Sentence Examples

  • Thus the part of B caused by the permanent magnetism of hard iron must be corrected by permanent magnets horizontally placed in a fore and aft direction; the other part caused by vertical soft iron by means of bars of vertical soft iron, called Flinders bars, before or abaft the compass.

  • The hopper is carried on two knife - edges, one on each side, and is prevented from tipping over fore and aft by a pair of parallel motion bars on each side.

  • In some vessels both fore and aft holds and 'tween decks are insulated.

  • The stock of the anchor rests on the cat-head when hung outside the ship. The name is also used of a type of a vessel, now obsolete, and formerly used in the coal and timber trade on the north-east coast of England; it had a deep waist and narrow stem; it is still applied to a small rig of sailing boats, with a single mast stepped far forward, with a fore and aft sail.

  • The contoured side decks allow easy movement fore and aft as you shift position from upwind sailing to reaching and running.

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