Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Parallel with the length of a structure, such as a ship or house; running lengthwise.
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- adjective nautical
parallel with thekeel , that is, going frombow tostern (as opposed tosquare-rigged ).
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Examples
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Immediately the lifts and lower-topsail sheets parted, and with a fore-and-aft pitch of the ship the spar up-ended and crashed to the deck upon Number Three hatch, destroying that section of the bridge in its fall.
CHAPTER XLVI 2010
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"Against everyone's advice, I bought a 1930s wooden classic yacht," the 45-year-old Englishman says as he prepares the 65-feet Marconi-rigged cutter—a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig with triangular sails—for a day of racing in Mallorca.
For Fixer-Uppers, It's All Hands on Deck Christine Pirovolakis 2011
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The crojack was taken in, and some of the outer fore-and-aft handsails, whose order of names I can never remember.
CHAPTER XXIX 2010
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I built her plank by plank, and copper-fastened her, selected her masts and every timber of her, and personally signed on her full ship's complement fore-and-aft, and outfitted her amongst the Jews, and sailed with her to the South Seas and the treasure buried a fathom under the sand.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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Toyota's Sienna has a second row that slides fore-and-aft over a generous range, aiding flexibility.
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Toyota's Sienna has a second row that slides fore-and-aft over a generous range, aiding flexibility.
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Packs at the alien's sides puffed gas from fore-and-aft snouts.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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* In Caenorhabditis the original cell, called Z, has a front end which is different from its rear end, and this difference will come to represent the eventual fore-and-aft body axis – anterior (front) and posterior (rear).
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The head and neck too, follow the same segmented plan, but it is harder to discern, even in fish, because the segments, instead of being neatly laid out in a fore-and-aft array as they are in the spinal column, have become all jumbled up over evolutionary time.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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* In Caenorhabditis the original cell, called Z, has a front end which is different from its rear end, and this difference will come to represent the eventual fore-and-aft body axis – anterior (front) and posterior (rear).
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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