FORE-AND-AFTER • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Fore-and-after

... unless he is a mere animated stomach; the many think they have come into their own as they go to sea, the vibration of the triple-screws singing along the keel.... They pass an iceberg or a derelict, some contour of tropical shore, a fishing fleet, or an old fore-and-after, and the steamer is a stifling modern metropolis after that—galley and stoke-hole its slums. Then and there, they vow some time really to ...

— Child and Country - A Book of the Younger Generation • Will Levington Comfort