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from AFTer...directional--in, at, toward, or close to the back
Knife and fork is London Cockney rhyming slang for pork.
Sand and canvas is nautical slang for clean thoroughly.
Fork and knife is London Cockney rhyming slang for life.Fork and knife was old London Cockney rhyming slang for wife.
Lean and fat was th century London Cockney rhyming slang for hat.
A sailing rig consisting mainly of sails that are set along the line of the keel rather than perpendicular to it. Such sails are referred to as "fore-and-aft rigged."
Daft
saddle with the front end looking like an "A," and no swells.
Amos and Andy is British rhyming slang for brandy. Amos and Andy is British rhyming slang for shandy.
Daft and barmy is London Cockney rhyming slang for army.
Fat and wide is London Cockney rhyming slang for bride.
Blood and sand is slang for menstruation.
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v. i.
To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.
n.
An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.
n.
The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.
n.
To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
adv.
Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.
n.
A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.
v.
Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.
adv.
Formerly; previously; afore.
v. t.
To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.
n.
One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.
n.
The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship.
adv.
In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
prep.
Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.
adv.
With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly.
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