fore-and-aft

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• The sailors adjusted the fore-and-aft sails to catch the wind more effectively.

• She carefully positioned the luggage along the fore-and-aft line of the deck.

• The forces acting tangentially to the seat surface (T IS) were measured in both the fore and aft directions.

  Academic text (1992)

• One challenge to the Hywind engineers is that the floating spar is subject to fore-and-aft and side-to-side motion from waves.

  Academic text (2009)

• The seat was constrained by the load cells mounted at each end of the seat substructure, so the seat would not move freely in the fore and aft directions.

  Academic text (1992)

• As a result, the load cells measured the horizontal reaction forces between the seat structure and the wheelchair frame, including the backrest, that tended to move the seat in the fore and aft directions.

  Academic text (1992)

• Update: Readers of the blog note that the word "clew" has several other meanings today, including one of the two lower corners of a square sail and the lower aft corner of a fore-and-aft sail.

  Blog text (20)

• Eighty-three feet from stem to stern, she was rigged fore-and-aft with the sunset orange sails of Gulliver Marine Ltd., furled and waiting release.

  Fiction book (1995)

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