The fore-and-aft affair above everything: take my glass and you will make out its sheet.

Turn of the next watch, we do a fore-and-aft walkdown.

The schooner with her fore-and-aft rig would be fast on the wind.

It runs longitudinally, fore-and-aft along the centre bottom of the boat.

The corridor, although apparently one of the main fore-and-aft passages, was empty except for us.

So close-hauled now that they would appear to be almost fore-and-aft to any observer on the land.

This amount of canvas is obviously too much for seven fore-and-aft sails and max.

These may be any type of fore-and-aft sail, in any combination.

Their ponderous main batteries were still parked in the fore-and-aft positions.

There is a long, narrow flat plate on the top of the receiver, which has slight fore-and-aft movement.

Most square rigged vessels also carry at least some fore-and-aft sails.

By this time a fore-and-aft sail was used on the mizzen mast.

If the course is fore-and-aft, square topsails can still be carried in front of the mast.

But with her fore-and-aft mizzen you mustn't be calling her a ship.

About halfway to the end, another passage crossed the fore-and-aft one, and a few steps farther was a ladder.

The lower forward corner of a fore-and-aft sail.

He stuck a fore-and-aft cap on his head.

Hull trim is the adjustment of a boat's loading so as to change its fore-and-aft attitude in the water.

The longitudinal frames provide strength in the fore-and-aft direction, parallel to the keel.

Each tank is split into two or three independent compartments by fore-and-aft bulkheads.

They also advertised a fore-and-aft tandem; it's not known if more than a few prototypes were produced.

In the evening a fore-and-aft mizzen was sighted, far south, and found again in the morning.

They were fitted with a light fore-and-aft sailing rig to steady her and aid in maneuvering.

It was not an aeroplane for a beginner, however, having very high landing speed and extreme fore-and-aft sensitivity.

Fore-and-aft rig features flat sails that run fore and aft.