FORE-AND-AFT SAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fore-and-aft sail mean? 

• FORE-AND-AFT SAIL (noun)
  The noun FORE-AND-AFT SAIL has 1 sense:

1. any sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft direction

  Familiarity information: FORE-AND-AFT SAIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORE-AND-AFT SAIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft direction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("fore-and-aft sail" is a kind of...):

canvas; canvass; sail; sheet (a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel)

Meronyms (parts of "fore-and-aft sail"):

luff ((nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fore-and-aft sail"):

gaff-headed sail; gaffsail (a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff)

fore-and-aft topsail; gaff topsail (a triangular fore-and-aft sail with its foot along the gaff and its luff on the topmast)

jib (any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast))

lateen; lateen sail (a triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterranean)

lug; lugsail (a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast)

mizen; mizzen (fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast)

spanker (a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower mast (usually the mizzenmast) of a vessel)

spritsail (a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit)

staysail (a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts))