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How to use fore-and-aft in a sentence

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It has square-rigged fore and main masts and a fore-and-aft rigged mizzenmast with topsail.
The fore-and-aft galley, with a full complement of Gaggenau equipment, connects the saloon to the wheelhouse to allow easy crew access to both.
This is how the fore-and-aft motion of the pistons is converted into rotary motion to drive the locomotive along the track.
But then one of the propeller shafts warped, and the gaff — part of the ship's fore-and-aft rig — broke.
V engines are usually mounted fore-and-aft, though they, too, can be installed crossways.
Also, the fore-and-aft sail on the mizzenmast, originally a triangular lateen sail, was changed to accommodate the more modern rig.
Schooner, a sailing ship rigged with fore-and-aft sails on its two or more masts.
The jumper arrangement stays the top mast, not only athwartships but also fore-and-aft.
This configuration allows to image water column and sea bottom in both athwartship and fore-and-aft direction.
Its articulation with the radius and ulna only permits fore-and-aft movement.
When furled, the square sails vanished inside the booms, although the 15 fore-and-aft sails were handled like any modern sail-boat's roller-furling jib.
The movement of each leg is almost limited to a fore-and-aft plane.
The prau is long and narrow, rigged with one or two fore-and-aft sails.
Threaded adjustable stops limiting the fore-and-aft movement of the column were located below the flr, and could be reached through the wheel well.
Brigantine, two-masted sailing ship with square rigging on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigging on the mainmast.
To ensure good fore-and-aft stability for this type of rig, it is very important that the leeward cap shroud is tight.
Leg and headroom in all five seating positions is generous, especially up front where seat travel fore-and-aft and up-and-down is quite remarkable.
The fore-and-aft and athwartship pen boards in the forward fish hold did not extend to the deckhead but were about 450 mm below it, and the stowed fish extended some 150 mm above the pen boards.
Set the fore-and-aft mast rake by using the main halyard as a plumb line.
The athwartships fracture crosses the main deck in a straight line at about 90 degrees to the fore-and-aft axis of the vessel, and continues through the radiused gunwale and down the starboard side shell plating.
Examples from Classical Literature
The plow looks like a fore-and-aft brace of a Hudson river steamer, inverted.
She carries a fore-and-aft main-sail, gaff-topsail, stay-foresail, and jib.
And what is defined about these sails will apply to all fore-and-aft sails.
I don't know how he came to be in command of a fore-and-aft schooner.
Lexington was initially fitted with an electrically-operated arresting gear design which used both fore-and-aft and transverse wires.
The essentials of the schooner are two fore-and-aft sails and a headsail, any other sails being incidental.
They were fore-and-aft schooners, of beautiful model, and entirely new.
The sheer of a vessel is the fore-and-aft curve of the deck line.
But with her fore-and-aft mizzen you mustn't be calling her a ship.
As everyone familiar with the sea is aware, the seamanship of the square-rigged vessel and of the fore-and-aft is very different.
Tarangini is a three-masted barque, square rigged on the fore and main masts and fore-and-aft rigged on the mizzen mast.
There is only one sheet on fore-and-aft sails, and there are just two on a square sail set on a yardarm.
The easy-to-use frame-engaging adapter kit transforms a pair of mobile columns into a fore-and-aft lift that's perfect for servicing Class 3 and most Class 4 trucks.
With jibs and fore-and-aft sails, the tack confines them amidships.
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