FORE AND AFT

Definition: FORE AND AFT

FORE AND AFT

1. (Naut.), from stem to stern; lengthwise of the vessel; -- in distinction from athwart. --R. H. Dana, Jr.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Shipping

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Completeness

Throughout; from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble; a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft; every, whit, every inch; cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter; up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes; as.. as can be.

Length

From end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe; fore and aft.

Crosswords: FORE AND AFT

Books

• Hoboken Captains, Fore and Aft (reference)

• Valour Fore and Aft (reference)

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Boat rigged for pole and line fishing. Note live bait tanks on deck fore and aft of pilot house. Poles of varying size are secured in vertical position ready for fishing. The largest poles are rigged to the pulley system that can be seen approximately 5 meters above the deck. Credit: Fisheries.

Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861, page 669, while the ship was under construction at Mystic, Connecticut. Details of this depiction are inaccurate, especially the elongated gun ports shown fore and aft of the smokestack. Credit: NAVY.

USS Lexington (CV-2) during the action, seen from USS Yorktown (CV-5), 8 May 1942. Large number of planes on deck and low sun indicate that the photo was taken early in the morning, prior to launching the strike against the Japanese carrier force. Yorktown has several SBDs and F4Fs on deck with engines running, apparently preparing to take off. Lexington, whose silhouette has been altered by the earlier removal of her 8-inch gun turrets, has planes parked fore and aft, and may be respotting her deck in preparation for launching aircraft. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed by her builder, Burger Boat Co., Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on 6 October 1942. Note sailors with rifles on guard fore and aft. Credit: NAVY.

At the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, circa April 1898. Note battery of four 5"/40 guns located on her sides, fore and aft of the superstructure. This was by far the heaviest battery fitted to any yacht converted for Spanish-American War service. Credit: NAVY.

Maneuvering in line abreast formation during exercises off Block Island, Rhode Island, in April 1947. Nearest submarine is USS Sarda (SS-488). USS Torsk (SS-423) is next. Both are fitted with 5"/25 deck guns fore and aft. Credit: NAVY.

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Expression using "FORE AND AFT": fore and aft bridge,connecting bridge. Additional references.

Albanian

gjatësor (longitudinal). (various references)

Bulgarian 

от носа до кърмата. (various references)

Danish

masseudligning i laengderetningen (fore and aft balancing, longitudinal counterbalancing), løbebro (cat walk, connecting bridge, flying bridge, fore and aft bridge, monkey bridge). (various references)

Dutch

uitbalancering van de massakrachten in langsrichting (fore and aft balancing, longitudinal counterbalancing), loopbrug (cat walk, connecting bridge, flying bridge, fore and aft bridge, gangway, monkey bridge, passage, passage way, treadmill). (various references)

Finnish

lehmäsilta (cat walk, connecting bridge, flying bridge, fore and aft bridge, monkey bridge), kaljusilta (cat walk, connecting bridge, flying bridge, fore and aft bridge, monkey bridge). (various references)

French

longitudinalement, en long. (various references)

German

längsschiffs. (various references)

Greek 

κατά μήκοσ του πλοίου. (various references)

Hungarian

teljes hosszában (fore-and-aft, overall), hosszanti (fore-and-aft), hajó hosszában, elejétől végig (fore-and-aft, from end to end). (various references)

Italian

passerella (bridge, catwalk, footbridge, gangway), Passaggio fra una sovrastruttura ed un'altra di una nave,che può essere fatto a ponte o poggiare su casotti. (cat walk, connecting bridge, flying bridge, fore and aft bridge, monkey bridge), equilibramento longitudinale (fore and aft balancing, longitudinal counterbalancing). (various references)

Manx

veih toshiaght gys jerrey. (various references)

Pig Latin

orefay anday aftay.(various references)

Portuguese

passadiço (catwalk, gangway). (various references)

Russian 

вдоль всего судна, на носу и на корме, продольный (fore-and-aft, lateral, lengthwise, longitudal). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzdužni (along, longitudinal, side). (various references)

Spanish

en sentido longitudinal, de proa a popa. (various references)

Swedish

från för till akter, för och akter. (various references)

Turkish

sübye armalı, baştan kıça kadar (from stem to stern). (various references)

Ukrainian

від носа до корми, на всю довжину корабля. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: affronted.

-2 letters: tradeoff.

-3 letters: affront, fanfare, forfend, fronted.

-4 letters: adnate, afeard, afford, aortae, ardent, atoned, atoner, dafter, doffer, donate, effort, fantod, fedora, fonder, fraena, offend, orated, ornate, rafted, ranted, rodent.

-5 letters: adore, adorn, afore, after, anear, anode, antae, anted, antra, antre, aorta, arena, atone, dater, defat, denar, derat, doter, draff, draft, drone, fader, faena, farad.