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

Example Sentences

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

In one way, it looks like that, but, after all, a jibe's quite a common thing with a fore-and-after.

From Hawtrey's Deputy by Cuneo, Cyrus

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 Comfort, Will Levington

The Admiral Hood was a small dandy-rigged fore-and-after, that is to say, she was a cutter with a small mizzen on which she would set a lugsail.

From King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble)

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 Wood, William Charles Henry