单词 | fore-and-aft |
释义 | fore-and-aft (once / 28075 pages) adj WORD FAMILY fore-and-aft USAGE EXAMPLESThe third stage vibrated quite a bit, not from side to side but with a choppy fore-and-aft motion which was felt as almost a buzz. Michael Collins, Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's...(1976) Since then opportunities for fore-and-aft sailing had been few and far between. Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis), With Beatty off Jutland—A Romance o...(2012) Hog′-frame, a fore-and-aft frame serving to resist vertical flexure in a ship.—adj. Various, Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictio...(2012) adj parallel with the keel of a boat or ship Syn lengthways, lengthwise running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing |
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