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    [Adjective]  | "fore-and-aft" | \ ˌfȯr-ə-ˈnaft \


    1: lying, running, or acting in the general line of the length of a construction (such as a ship or a house) : longitudinal

    2: having no square sails


    Origin: 1820 ;

    [Adverb]  | "fore and aft" 


    1: lengthwise of a ship : from stem to stern

    2: in, at, or toward both the bow and stern

    3: in or at the front and back or the beginning and end


    Origin: circa 1618 ;

    [Noun]  | "fore-and-aft rig" 


    1: a sailing-ship rig in which most or all of the sails are not attached to yards but are bent to gaffs or set on the masts or on stays in a fore-and-aft line


    Origin: 1879 ;

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