fore-and-aft
- s parallel with the keel of a boat or ship
- A fore-and-aft rigged ship with from two to six masts.
- As a schooner is fore-and-aft-rigged it could not conform to the requirements of this definition.
- He noticed that the fore-and-aft stick movement, which raises or lowers the nose of the aircraft in flight, was slightly stiff, but he thought nothing of it at the time.