fore-and-aft rig

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   rig in which the principal sails are fore-and-aft

   Broaderrig

Questions about fore-and-aft rig

What does fore-and-aft rig mean?

fore-and-aft rig means "rig in which the principal sails are fore-and-aft".

Is fore-and-aft rig a common word?

fore-and-aft rig is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.