[f. prec. + -ER1.] a. A ‘fore and aft’ schooner. b. (see quot. 1867.)
1823. J. F. Cooper, Pioneer, xv. (1869), 66. I went a few trips in a fore-and-after, in the same trade, which after all was but a blind kind of sailing in the dark, where a man larns but little, excepting how to steer by the stars.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Fore-and-after. A cocked hat worn with the peak in front instead of athwart.
