fore-and-after
Americannoun
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Nautical.
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a sailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig.
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a beam running fore and aft across a hatchway to support hatch covers laid athwart the hatchway.
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a vessel having a sharp stern; a double ender.
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noun
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any vessel with a fore-and-aft rig
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a double-ended vessel
Etymology
Origin of fore-and-after
First recorded in 1815–25; fore-and-aft + -er 1
Example Sentences
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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
“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
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
She’s a footy little brig, but I should have thought a fore-and-after would have been more handy.”
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 by Various
There can be no doubt that the lateen sail, which goes back at least to the early Egyptians, had the germ of a fore-and-after in it.
From All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by William Charles Henry Wood
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