Usually means: Rigging running lengthwise on ships.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word fore-and-aft:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. fore-and-aft: Merriam-Webster
  2. fore-and-aft: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. fore-and-aft: Vocabulary.com
  4. fore-and-aft: Wiktionary
  5. fore-and-aft: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. fore-and-aft: Dictionary.com
  7. Fore-and-aft: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. fore-and-aft: Rhymezone
  9. Fore-and-Aft: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. fore-and-aft: FreeDictionary.org
  11. fore-and-aft: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. fore-and-aft: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fore-and-aft: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FORE-AND-AFT: Glossary of Nautical Terms

Definitions from Wiktionary (fore-and-aft)

adjective:  (nautical, of the orientation of the sails of a ship) parallel with the keel, that is, going from bow to stern (as opposed to square-rigged).

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