fore-and-after

1. 1.

   sailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig

   Broadersailing vessel

Questions about fore-and-after

What does fore-and-after mean?

fore-and-after means "sailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig".

How many syllables are in fore-and-after?

fore-and-after has 5 syllables and divides as fo-re--an-d-af-ter under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is fore-and-after a common word?

fore-and-after 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.