You can make 481 anagrams from letters in fore-and-aft (--aadeffnort).
First recorded in 1610-20
The sheer of a vessel is the fore-and-aft curve of the deck line.
I don't know how he came to be in command of a fore-and-aft schooner.
And what is defined about these sails will apply to all fore-and-aft sails.
The plow looks like a fore-and-aft brace of a Hudson river steamer, inverted.
fore-and-aft sails: Sails that are set on gaffs and stays, and not on yards.
But with her fore-and-aft mizzen you mustn't be calling her a ship.
With jibs and fore-and-aft sails, the tack confines them amidships.
She carries a fore-and-aft main-sail, gaff-topsail, stay-foresail, and jib.
The term “fore-and-aft” is derived from the forward part and the after part of the ship.
They were fore-and-aft schooners, of beautiful model, and entirely new.
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