fore-and-aft sail

fore-and-aft sail

n. A sail set more or less parallel to the keel of a vessel, attached to a mast or stay at its foremost edge and designed to catch the wind on either surface.

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fore-and-aft sail - any sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft directiongaff-headed sail, gaffsail - a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gafffore-and-aft topsail, gaff topsail - a triangular fore-and-aft sail with its foot along the gaff and its luff on the topmastjib - any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)lateen, lateen sail - a triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterraneanluff - (nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mastlugsail, lug - a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mastmizen, mizzen - fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmastsail, canvass, canvas, sheet - a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vesselspanker - a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower mast (usually the mizzenmast) of a vesselspritsail - a fore-and-aft sail extended by a spritstaysail - a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts)