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Definition of Fore-and-after
1. Noun. Sailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fore-and-after
Literary usage of Fore-and-after
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853)
"THE BLACK HAWK; OR, LIFE IN A FORE AND AFTER. THE next morning I called on the
President, and received my patent as Commissioner of the Fisheries on the ..."
2. Mathematical and Physical Papers: Collected from Different Scientific by Baron William Thomson Kelvin, Sir Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule (1882)
"If the surface of the body be everywhere convex, there will be an augmentation
of pressure in the fore and after parts of it, and a diminution of pressure ..."
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