Definition of "fore-and-aft" []

• Parallel with the length of a structure, such as a ship or house; running lengthwise. (adjective)

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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."
• ""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."
• "The crojack was taken in, and some of the outer fore-and-aft handsails, whose order of names I can never remember."