Significados de fore-and-aft en inglés

There is little mystery in getting a fore-and-aft vessel under way.

Lightness and concentrated power are the great qualities of fore-and-aft rig.

The plow looks like a fore-and-aft brace of a Hudson river steamer, inverted.

They had stingers fore-and-aft and could get you coming or going.

In a slightly modified form the same system was applied to the fore-and-aft balance.

Two large ships at anchor; or were they moored fore-and-aft?

Symmetry is curiously vegetable-like, suggesting vegetable's essentially up-and-down structure rather than animal's fore-and-aft structure.

I don't know how he came to be in command of a fore-and-aft schooner.

The gaff of its fore-and-aft sail flew no flag.

The Lady Nelson, having split her fore-and-aft mainsail, bore up for Twofold Bay to refit.

The square-rigged ship, or bark, has been very largely replaced by the fore-and-aft, or schooner-rigged vessel.

The fore-and-aft rig would make it simpler to spread some sail when they had enough sea-room.

A command from the tug and mooring beams glowed at the fore-and-aft towers to immobilize the Raven.

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

Deep-space transports and utilities rode high, immobilized by fore-and-aft mag-beams at the pinnacles of two-hundred-meter mooring towers.

After breakfast we took a drosky, or whatever these fore-and-aft-seated vehicles are called, and set out for