| 单词 | fore-and-aft rigged |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfore-and-aft rigged a. (usually with hyphens). Placed or directed in the line of the vessel's length. Of sails (see quot. 1867); hence, of a vessel rigged with such sails. Also in combination fore-and-aft rigged adj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > either extremity of vessel > [adjective] > in the line of the vessel's length fore and aft1820 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 197 (note) I have confined the term..gaff sails to the fore and aft sails. 1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xvii. 294 A large fore-and-aft rigged vessel. 1856 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 426 The Dean Richmond is a fore-and-aft schooner of 380 tons register. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Fore-and-aft sails, jibs, staysails, and gaffsails; in fact, all sails which are not set to yards. 1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. ii. i. 192 The grinding action of the molar teeth with a certain amount of lateral and fore and aft movement. 1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §325 ‘Fore-and-aft’ rig is any rig in which..the chief sails come into the plane of mast or masts and keel, by the action of the wind upon the sails when the vessel's head is to wind. < as lemmas |
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