How To Use fore-and-aft In A Sentence
- The foremasts carried square-rigged sails, while the mainmasts carried a fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail and square-rigged top sail.
- “But if she’s clean below, and doesn’t dismast or fall apart under the strain, and if we avoid digging her bow and flipping fore-and-aft — we might just be able to make it in thirty-six hours.” Conqueror's Moon
- Southern hemisphere ships and non-Venn ships of the north were all fore-and-aft rigged, though many had square foretopsails; raffees had square foresails with triangular foretopsails.
- To bring the compass needle back to North it would be necessary to move up nearer the compass dial the fore-and-aft magnet (shown below), whose magnetism would act on the compass needle on this heading of the ship exactly as the athwartship magnet acted on the compass needle when the ship was headed North: Lectures in Navigation
- A seaplane drifted overhead, taking photographs for before-and-after images to determine how the atoll's topography had changed. THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
- Ordinarily, scientists gauge environmental impacts by comparing before-and-after data on species in a region invaded by an alien.
- The rainfall will restrain the development of mix layer which has a feature of mature, die and rebuild fore-and-aft the duration of rainfall.
- 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. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation
- Also, the fore-and-aft sail on the mizzenmast, originally a triangular lateen sail, was changed to accommodate the more modern rig.
- Next, she had to supply a CV and a portfolio of work containing before-and-after pictures of various nail techniques.
