Fore-and-Aft.

Lengthwise, in opposition to “athwart-ships” (or across the line of the keel). (Dana: Seaman’s Manual, p. 96.)

“A slight spar-deck fore-and-aft.”—Sir W. Raleigh.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Foppington (Lord)
Forbears
Forbës
Forbidden Fruit (The)
Foreible Feeble School
Ford
Fordelis (in Orlando Furioso)
Fore
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Foreclose
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Forfar
Forget-me-nots of the Angels
Forgive, blest Shade
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