fore-and-after

American  

[fawr-uhnd-af-ter, ahf-, fohr-] / ˈfɔr əndˈæf tər, ˈɑf-, ˈfoʊr- /

noun

1. Nautical.

   1. a sailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig.

   2. a beam running fore and aft across a hatchway to support hatch covers laid athwart the hatchway.

   3. a vessel having a sharp stern; a double ender.

2. deerstalker.

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fore-and-after British  

noun

1. any vessel with a fore-and-aft rig

2. a double-ended vessel

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Etymology

Origin of fore-and-after

First recorded in 1815–25; fore-and-aft + -er ¹

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Example Sentences

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fore-and-after

Why, dere neber has been no cooking on board of dis here fore-and-after till you yourself comed on board.

From Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

They pass an iceberg or a derelict, some contour of tropical shore, a fishing fleet, or an old fore-and-after, and the steamer is a stifling modern metropolis after that—galley and stoke-hole its slums.

From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Will Levington Comfort

It caught the sails of the new fore-and-after, and the little craft fell over on another tack and shot away.

From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Norman Duncan

“Small fore-and-after, sir, with sails down and sweeps out, close under the land.”

From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

Well, you must understand that this room was low, scarcely higher than the cabin of a fore-and-after, with no skylights to it, or wind-sail, or port-hole that would open.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

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