| 单词 | fore-and-aft |
| 例句 | The 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. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The little ship, like most traders of the Inmost Sea, bore the high fore-and-aft sail that can be turned to catch a headwind, and her master was a handy seaman, proud of his skill. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z It opened into a saloon 20 feet by 7 feet, which in turn communicated with a fore-and-aft alley-way extending almost the extreme length of the fuselage. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z Since then opportunities for fore-and-aft sailing had been few and far between. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z Below these decks again came the inner bottom, extending fore-and-aft through about nine-tenths of the vessel's length, and on this were placed the boilers, main and auxiliary machinery, and the electric-light machines. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z Hog′-frame, a fore-and-aft frame serving to resist vertical flexure in a ship.—adj. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z An examination through the glass made them out to be a ship and a fore-and-aft schooner. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z The chums found themselves in a compartment measuring 15 feet in a fore-and-aft direction and 10 feet across the for'ard bulkhead, the width diminishing to the rounded end of the nacelle. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z And this fore-and-aft recoil cracking went on without intermission for at least a minute—that minute during which the Judge’s shaving was interrupted. A Bride from the Bush 2011-12-24T03:08:05.053Z I got a thorough raking, fore-and-aft, for my temerity, but, except at the height of the wind, I managed to avoid the ignominy of being forced back against the stream. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Goose′-winged, having only one clew set: in fore-and-aft rigged vessels, having the mainsail on one side and the foresail on the other, so as to sail wing-and-wing.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z He was standing in a narrow fore-and-aft passage. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Cat′-rigged, having one great fore-and-aft mainsail spread by a gaff at the head and a boom at the foot, for smooth water only. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z It was found that one of the fore-and-aft girders had been shattered for a length of nearly fifteen feet, and some of the connecting braces and struts had been twisted and buckled. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z Then, after a kind of dazed once-over of the raft, fore-and-aft: “By cripes, the kid is gone!” Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z The sail was a fore-and-aft one, though very full at times. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z Then he removed his pair of high hunting shoes and placed them on top of the clothes, and tossed his fore-and-aft cap on the heap. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z The most common type of motor truck logging road—a fore-and-aft pole road. Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 2011-09-10T02:00:27.273Z At 10.20, discovered the Alabama steaming out from the port of Cherbourg, accompanied by a French iron-clad steamer, and a fore-and-aft rigged steamer showing the white English ensign and a yacht flag. An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge An Account of the Naval Engagement in the British Channel, on Sunday June 19th, 1864 2011-08-08T02:00:19.967Z She was fitted with engines and a screw, and was rigged as a three-masted fore-and-aft schooner. The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z By daylight the weather grew better, the wind veered to the eastward a little, and the fore-and-aft sails were set. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Equal to them in size were the schooners, which also had two masts, but were rigged fore-and-aft. Four American Naval Heroes Paul Jones, Admiral Farragut, Oliver H. Perry, Admiral Dewey 2011-07-04T02:00:24.047Z Detailed view of fore-and-aft plank road,showing method of wedging. Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 2011-09-10T02:00:27.273Z They were blowing out in a fore-and-aft direction. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z She proved to be a small fore-and-aft schooner of about fifty tons, nattily built, so far as I was able to judge in the darkness, and very well suited to my purpose. The Kidnapped President 2011-06-23T02:00:29.120Z The camp consisted of a wagon with a fore-and-aft canvas hood, or, as it is called in South Africa, a “tent.” Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z Jet Glen settles the fore-and-aft cap on his head, and surveys the deep blue sky above, as if he is doubting the settled state of the elements. Zoe; Or, Some Day A Novel 2011-06-11T02:00:13.290Z You've taken a fore-and-aft rigged brigantine, one of the handiest under Christian sail, and turned her into a square-rigger. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z It is a well-known fact that the fore-and-aft rig was best understood in America, where it had really been brought to perfection. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z The cockney accent was a strange new language to them, and the throngs of travelers in rough ulsters and fore-and-aft caps filled them with the most profound interest. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z “You can keep half an eye on the inclinometer and fore-and-aft level if you want to; but I always think it is better to learn by the feel of the plane.” Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z The Frenchman had gone about also, and both ships were now heading slowly for the sea under fore-and-aft canvas, the “Gloire” a hundred yards in advance. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 2011-03-20T02:00:35.193Z For a time the captain tried to steady the ship with the canvas fore-and-aft sails which big steamships use occasionally in fine weather to help the rudder. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z In all cases, the engine and dynamo should be placed with their spindles fore-and-aft, or in a line with the ship’s keel, the rolling being felt more than the pitching. Wrinkles in Electric Lighting 2011-01-22T03:00:17.277Z She was barkentine rigged, with long lower masts, which enabled her to carry large fore-and-aft sails, as jibs and try-sails, which are of so much importance to a steamer, in so many emergencies. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z A second or two more, and the whole length of our bag was showing, riding fairly level fore-and-aft, but with a slight list to starboard. Sea-Hounds “Yonder ship has indeed filled as you call it; but allow me to tell you, as a general rule, that square-rigged craft brace-up, while fore-and-aft vessels fill, as they have no yards to brace-up.” The Ruined Cities of Zululand The catboat was sixteen feet over all, with its mast stepped well forward, of course, carrying a large fore-and-aft sail with gaff and boom. Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club I would have none of your fancy rigs with the man driving from the mizzen cross-trees, but a plain fore-and-aft hack cab of the highest registered tonnage. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston At half-past nine, we gave chase to a fore-and-aft schooner, which proved to be a Venezuela coaster. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z That turn through sixteen points brought the seas, which we had been running before all night, right ahead, and all in a minute she was being swept fore-and-aft by every second or third of them. Sea-Hounds In addition to the ordinary fore-and-aft sails we had two movable yards on the foremast for a square foresail and topsail. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I The sides were bevelled, and heavy stones were placed amidships to give a slight fore-and-aft camber to the bottom. The Migrations of an American Boat Type She was a trim and stout little fore-and-aft schooner of fifty tons burthen. Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys With her tall lower masts, and large fore-and-aft sails, she was better on a wind, or with the wind abeam. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Prolonged study led him to the conclusion that the slight fore-and-aft curvature of the wing was the secret of flying. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force He is not like a new hand altogether, having already had two years' experience in a fore-and-aft craft. A Chapter of Adventures The inner edge of the metallic ring is engraved in degrees - the 0� or 360� and the 180� marks indicating a fore-and-aft line parallel to the keel of the ship. Lectures in Navigation There is always a certain possibility of bringing a fore-and-aft rigged vessel's mainboom over when she is running hard, and this is rather apt to result in disaster to her spars. Hawtrey's Deputy She was a fore-and-aft schooner of that peculiar model and rig already described as belonging to the New Englander, and nobody else, and we felt certain, at once, that we had flushed the enemy. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z His last improvement was a movable horizontal tail, or elevator, worked by a line attached to his head, to control the fore-and-aft balance of the machine. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force In the course of half a minute a young Englishman, with a fore-and-aft cap in his hand, came running to the reception-room, in the door of which Millard was standing. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York The Patrick Henry was rigged as a brigantine, square yards to the foremast and fore-and-aft sails alone to the mainmast. Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker They were fore-and-aft schooners, of beautiful model, and entirely new. Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark She was a “down-East,” fore-and-aft schooner, and there are no other such vessels in the world. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z The wings were set at a dihedral angle, that is, they were bent upwards at the tips; and fore-and-aft stability was secured by a smaller pair of wings just in front of the airscrew. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force A name applied on the great lakes of North America to a vessel square-rigged on the fore-mast, and fore-and-aft rigged on the main and mizen masts. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. There is always a certain possibility of bringing a fore-and-aft rigged vessel’s main-boom over when she is running hard, and this is apt to result in disaster to her spars. Masters of the Wheat-Lands Strenuously we toiled, and when at length the light failed us we had risen the craft sufficiently to determine that she was a fore-and-aft schooner. The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise As soon as the Bahama had steamed away, and left me alone, I turned my ship’s head to the north-east, set the fore-and-aft sails, and directed the engineer to let his fires go down. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Luckily the spar did not go over the side, but lay, fore-and-aft, inboard; otherwise the rigging might have fouled the propeller and brought the ship to a standstill. With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure The disposition of the masts, cut of sails, &c., whether square or fore-and-aft rigs. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The boy flung himself down the ladder, sped aft along the fore-and-aft bridge, turned at the shelter-deck, descended another ladder, and brought up in the battery. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions In a slightly modified form the same system was applied to the fore-and-aft balance. The Early History of the Airplane For some few minutes I had hopes of being able to reach the French coast, for which purpose I gave the ship all steam, and set such of the fore-and-aft sails as were available. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z I, Silas Barker, am the sole survivor of the wreck of the fore-and-aft schooner Amy Pelham, of which I was owner and master. With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure To let out a reef, and enlarge the sail.—To shake off a bonnet of a fore-and-aft sail.—To shake a cask. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Technically speaking, the endangered vessel is not a ship, but a barque, as betokened by the fore-and-aft rig of her mizenmast. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure The two steam vessels, under fore-and-aft canvas, drew away rapidly to windward and ahead, and in spite of all we could do, a few hours of darkness effectually succeeded in dispersing us. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 The square-rigged ship, or bark, has been very largely replaced by the fore-and-aft, or schooner-rigged vessel. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges When any fore-and-aft vessel came into this harbor I was informed of the fact, and you may judge my surprise when I saw The Starry Flag. Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World The longitudinal curve of a ship's decks or sides; the hanging of the vessel's side in a fore-and-aft direction. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. She is a fore-and-aft schooner of one hundred and ten tons, said to have been built at Baltimore. A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy I don't know how he came to be in command of a fore-and-aft schooner. Man Overboard! Two types of vessels came into use—one, the clipper ship with square sails, was used for long ocean voyages; the other, the schooner, with fore-and-aft rigging, was employed mainly in the coast-trade. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges The storm arising after they had set fire to the vessel, however, the wind had fanned the flames until she had become a raging fiery furnace fore-and-aft. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess Also, a sailing vessel, with fore-and-aft main-sail, jib fore-sail, and jib: differing from a sloop in setting the jib on a stay, which is eased in by travellers. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The barge of my old ship, the Colossus, was rigged as a fore-and-aft schooner, and I’ve sailed her many’s the time; and I suppose all fore-and-afters are handled in pretty much the same way. A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy If there was any job aloft that needed two hands, they were always the first to jump into the rigging; but that doesn't often happen on a fore-and-aft schooner. Man Overboard! Some were marked with radiating lines and numbers, and they evidently controlled the inner mechanism, part of which he could see—little brass cog-wheels, worms, and levers—through a fore-and-aft slot near the keyholes. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Hearing the splash and the excited cries of "Man overboard!" which rang out fore-and-aft, he rushed to the gangway to see if he could be of any assistance in the emergency. Adventures in Many Lands The iron bar upon which the sheets of fore-and-aft sails traverse, in small vessels. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. What sailors call fore-and-aft sails had already been introduced, and we hear constantly of ships beating to windward, and attempting to gain the weather-gage. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 All that day the chase continued—the frigate gaining, however, somewhat on the stranger, a large fore-and-aft schooner. Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars About halfway to the end, another passage crossed the fore-and-aft one, and a few steps farther was a ladder. This World Must Die! The Eagle was one of the first ships which left Quebec this year, with a crew of eighteen, all told fore-and-aft, with the captain’s wife and several passengers. Old Jack The spar which stretches the foot of the boom-mainsail in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. He liked the yellow fore-and-aft buckboards, he enjoyed the shining buggies, especially when their wheels were painted red; dog-carts and victorias ranked high in his esteem. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book But his crowning effort was in wearing the great traveling badge, the English fore-and-aft checked cap, with its ear flaps tied up over the crown, leaving the front and rear scoops exposed. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel Then he took a fore-and-aft measurement from a point opposite the forward end of the table to one opposite the after end of the bunk. Breaking Point These are fore-and-aft sails, which are kept distended by a sprit instead of a yard. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships Strictly, a small craft with two masts and no tops, but the name is also applied to fore-and-aft vessels of various classes. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. At first I stood merely looking on; but the breeze freshened and rather headed us, and Hawk issued an order to flatten in the fore-and-aft sails, and to brace up the yards. Peter the Whaler Saying this, they jumped up on their fore-and-aft drosky, and, giving their directions as well as could any Russian, they thought, away they drove. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar Her rig was that of a brigantine—the foremast having the top and spars of a brig, the mainmast carrying fore-and-aft sails like a schooner. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea The advantage of the square-rig over the fore-and-aft rig is, that the sails, being smaller and more numerous, are more easily managed, and require fewer men or “hands” to work them. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships An additional part laced to the foot of the jibs, or other fore-and-aft sails, in small vessels in moderate weather, to gather more wind. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. At length Mr Kingston judged it wise to shorten sail, which he forthwith did, having set only his mainsail, jib, and fore-and-aft foresail, a fore-trysail. Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign “What, all three of us, sir?” asked Gerald, unable to resist the joke, which set the men grinning fore-and-aft, in spite of the perilous position of the ship. The Three Lieutenants “Now, my lads, aft here, and shake a reef out of the fore-and-aft mainsail.” The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea The term “fore-and-aft” is derived from the forward part and the after part of the ship. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships It allows one sail only—an enormous fore-and-aft main-sail, spread by a gaff at the head and a boom at the foot, hoisted on a stout mast, which is stepped close to the stem. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. And a barque is a three-master with a mizzen fore-and-aft rigged.” The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise Then he went on giving me explanations about the sail, and which was a lug-sail, what was meant by fore-and-aft rig, and a dozen other things, showing me the while too how to steer. Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas They reef their canvas, not like fore-and-aft sails in general, by the foot, but by the leach along to the yard. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea Suppose, further, a square sail stretched between the two masts quite flat; and remember that this would be a fore-and-aft sail—namely, one extending along the length, not across the breadth of the vessel. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships One or more wooden bulk-heads in a vessel's hold, put up fore-and-aft, and firmly supported, for preventing a cargo which is stowed in bulk from shifting. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. But what do you mean by fore-and-aft rigged?” The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise Look here, sir, we call the rig of a boat or ship fore-and-aft when the sails are flat, like they are in a cutter or sloop or schooner. Menhardoc She was of considerable size, and, what is unusual with craft of her description, she was decked fore-and-aft, though her between-decks must have been inconveniently low. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea The schooner’s distinctive peculiarities are, that it carries two masts, which usually “rake aft,” or lean back a good deal; and its rig is chiefly fore-and-aft, like the sloop. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships A fore-and-aft sail, hoisted by a gaff, but having no boom at its foot, and only used in foul weather. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. And, soon after, a large fore-and-aft rigged schooner was seen entering the bay. The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land “It ain’t no before and no after; it’s fore-and-aft,” growled Josh. Menhardoc The fore-and-aft canvas was at the same time set, and the moment that the royals were at the mast-heads the yards were braced for casting the ship. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War The difference between a barque and a brig is that the former has three masts, the two front ones being square-rigged, and the mizzen being fore-and-aft rigged. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships Also, a fore-and-aft sail, set with a boom and gaff, in ships, synonymous with the spencers of brigs and schooners, and the spanker or driver of ships. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. She was a tremendously beamy craft, flush-decked fore-and-aft, and was armed with ten twelve-pounders in her broadside batteries, with a thirty-two-pounder between her masts—a truly formidable craft of her kind. The Log of a Privateersman “It’s a fore-and-aft rigged boat that trawls,” said Will. Menhardoc She will look up nearly a point higher under her fore-and-aft canvas only, and go along very nearly as fast.” A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron If you were to put a fore-and-aft rigged mizzen-mast into the after part of a brig, that would convert it into a barque. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships With jibs and fore-and-aft sails, the tack confines them amidships. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Also hinge-bladed propellers, to open and close with a fore-and-aft movement at the stern. History of Steam on the Erie Canal Presently the lookout came down, and reported that the distant vessel appeared to be a large fore-and-aft schooner, bearing down upon them. With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire A command from the tug and mooring beams glowed at the fore-and-aft towers to immobilize the Raven. The Universe — or Nothing The fore-and-aft rig alone would enable a vessel to tack, as it is called, and this could only be used with craft of moderate tonnage. English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 The principal use is to allow the oar, in case of action, suddenly to lie fore-and-aft over the side, and take care of itself. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. "Quarter-deck and cabin—rig her fore-and-aft,"— Thus he murmured wisely as he launched his craft. Days of the Discoverers The Winnie.—A fore-and-aft derived from a French model of the First Empire period, the severity of which is mitigated by the addition of little bells. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, September 22, 1920 But as sloops were fore-and-aft craft it is a little doubtful what is here meant. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 I think they would have done better if they had rigged her as a fore-and-aft schooner instead of putting those heavy yards on the foremast. The Queen's Cup A spar used in ships to extend the heads of fore-and-aft sails which are not set on stays. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. A brigantine is a small, two-masted vessel, square rigged on both masts, but with a fore-and-aft mainsail and the mainmast considerably longer than the foremast. Public Speaking She was a side-wheeler, with a thin raking funnel, and was square-rigged on her fore-mast, fore-and-aft on her mizzen. Secret Bread Such pieces were then to be sawn in a fore-and-aft direction so as to cut across the beams and thwarts and render the hull utterly useless. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 A "three-masted schooner" has only lower masts and topmasts, and each mast is rigged for fore-and-aft sails, but more often than not these vessels carry yards at the fore and sometimes at the main. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 A fore-and-aft sail of various shapes set on the mizen stay. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The snow was practically a brig, carrying a fore-and-aft sail on the mainmast, with a square sail directly above it. American Merchant Ships and Sailors The Casco was a fore-and-aft schooner, ninety-five feet in length, of seventy tons' burden. The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls As everyone familiar with the sea is aware, the seamanship of the square-rigged vessel and of the fore-and-aft is very different. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 That, having done this, they steered for the Havana, and, after altering their craft to a fore-and-aft schooner, sold her, and shared the money. Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 The act of shifting over the boom of a fore-and-aft sail from one side of the vessel to the other. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Barks, ketches, snows, and brigantines carried fore-and-aft rigs in connection with square sails on either mast, but now for the first time two masts were rigged fore and aft, and the square sails wholly discarded. American Merchant Ships and Sailors Monday, November 20th.—The fore-and-aft sails were taken in, as they were doing no good and the square Page 205canvas was drawing. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months His canoe, with a long fore-and-aft sail, and so well adapted for working into the wind, was not well rigged for drifting before a breeze, which was what he was now doing. After London Or, Wild England The 4th September found her well past the mouth of the Amazon, bowling along under all fore-and-aft sails, with bright, clear weather, and a fresh trade-wind from about east by south. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter A light sail set on the topmost stay of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. One is a model of a "fore-and-aft" schooner, with whose rigging or hull the most particular tar could not find fault. Frank, the Young Naturalist This saloon measured seventeen feet six inches, from corridor to windows, and twenty-nine fore-and-aft. The Flying Legion "Quite true, sir, in name, but your honor will recollect the spanker is nothing but a fore-and-aft course, rigged to a mast, instead of to a jack-yard, as it used to be." The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet That sounds like a slow business; but the Brooks was a clipper-built vessel with three masts and a lot of sails—square sails, fore-and-aft sails, jib sails, and all that sort of thing. The Rudder Grangers Abroad and Other Stories The term is also applied to the fore and main sails of a schooner or other two-masted fore-and-aft vessel; when running before the wind she has these sails set on opposite sides. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The Frenchman had gone about also, and both ships were now heading slowly for the sea under fore-and-aft canvas, the Gloire a hundred yards in advance. The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales Yes, and Nissr would go crumpling down, a minute later, a blazing sieve fore-and-aft—wings, tanks, fuselage, everything riddled with thousands of bullets. The Flying Legion "I believe I now understand you, Signor Vice-governatore," he said; "we have a sea-phrase something like this, to describe a fore-and-aft vessel with her sails swinging off on both sides; but we call it wing-and-wing." The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet This he was enabled to do quite easily, since fore-and-aft vessels make much quicker tacks than those that are square-rigged. The Crater Hoops or rings of rope, wood, or iron, fixed upon the stays, to seize the luff of fore-and-aft sails, and to confine the staysails thereto, at different distances. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. There is another technical question to be considered in the fixing of the floats, namely, the fore-and-aft balance of the machine in the air. The Mastery of the Air The four masts were made in one continuous length, with fore-and-aft sails, but no yards,—thereby reducing the number of hands necessary to work them. Men of Invention and Industry In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W Lanyard moved down to the junction of the thwartship passage with the fore-and-aft alleyway. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf A small vessel with quadrilateral or four-cornered cut sails, set fore-and-aft, and may have two or three masts. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. To overcome this the float is set well forward of the centre of gravity, and though this counteracts the thrust when the craft "taxies" along the waves, it endangers its fore-and-aft stability when aloft. The Mastery of the Air I walked fore-and-aft the deck, with a step and a swagger that would have become a Port Admiral in the British navy. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale The plow looks like a fore-and-aft brace of a Hudson river steamer, inverted. Life on the Mississippi, Part 10. Now Lanyard's quarters opened not on this alleyway fore-and-aft but on a short and narrow athwartship passage. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf An iron ring which traverses along on the fore-sheet horse of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The Lady Nelson, having split her fore-and-aft mainsail, bore up for Twofold Bay to refit. The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant "Why, from her fore-and-aft rig, and the cut of her mainsail, I should say she's down from the port of London; but I'll signal the commodore to come and introduce us!" Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby As the topsails were sheeted home, and the heavy fore-and-aft mainsails were hoisted, the songs of the men sounded cheerful and animating. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers She differed from a lugger as widely as a lugger differs from a schooner, and her broad spread of canvas combined the features of square and of fore-and-aft tackle. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale It was the fore-and-aft gear that was broken—the thing that leads aft from the forward part of the horse and is made fast to the thing that pulls the wagon. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 05 She was a fore-and-aft schooner of twenty tons, measuring 42 feet 6 inches over all and put up at Bonny Town by Captain Birkett. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 August 24.—We lifted the rudder out of the ice and placed it clear of the stern, athwart the fore-and-aft line of the ship. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition What was more, those small fore-and-aft rigged craft were readily enough handled by a single watch; and this so much the more easily, now that their top-sails were in. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers There is little mystery in getting a fore-and-aft vessel under way. Jack Tier These fore-and-aft pieces were laid along the waterline, their ends entering the skids by means of mortices and tenons, where they were snugly bolted. The Monikins The detective was the cross-eyed man, himself now disguised as Sherlock Holmes, with a fore-and-aft cloth cap and drooping blond mustache. Merton of the Movies A couple or three rope-yarns, rove fore-and-aft on each side, would prevent the rider listing to stabbard or port, while the vertical pitch would be provided for by a lashing rove across each shoulder. Such Is Life "Yes, he is married; and both he and his wife ride fore-and-aft on one animal at Khartum." The Discovery of the Source of the Nile A fore-and-aft vessel, sailing close by the wind, is not difficult to steer; will almost steer herself, indeed, in smooth water. Jack Tier His invention was the Yankee schooner of fore-and-aft rig, and he gave to this type of vessel its name. The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors Meantime the Agra had already shown him great sailing qualities: the log was hove at sundown and gave eleven knots; so that with a good breeze abaft, few fore-and-aft rigged pirates could overhaul her. Hard Cash You must often have noticed that the chief difficulty of swimming with your clothes on your head arises from the fore-and-aft surging of the package with each stroke. Such Is Life The art of sailing into a wind had not yet been invented, nor was there any fore-and-aft canvas, save for small headsails with which a vessel could be turned. Sir Nigel The Swash carried a wapper of a fore-and-aft mainsail, and, what is more, it was fitted with a standing gaff, for appearance in port. Jack Tier At last, the dog got to his feet, stretched himself fore-and-aft, in true collie fashion; and trotted down the paved walk to the road. Further Adventures of Lad As I have said, I know nothing of racing and but little of fore-and-aft rig; but the advantages of such a rig are obvious, especially for purposes of pleasure, whether in cruising or racing. The Mirror of the Sea The fore-and-aft rig in its simplicity and the beauty of its aspect under every angle of vision is, I believe, unapproachable. The Mirror of the Sea Of those three varieties of fore-and-aft rig, the cutter—the racing rig par excellence—is of an appearance the most imposing, from the fact that practically all her canvas is in one piece. The Mirror of the Sea She was directly off Whitestone, and was making easy stretches across the passage, or river, as it is called, having nothing set but her huge fore-and-aft mainsail and the jib. Jack Tier Lightness and concentrated power are the great qualities of fore-and-aft rig. The Mirror of the Sea |
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