Fin Keel - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: fin keelFin keel
A projection downward from the keel of a yacht resembling in shape the fin of a fish though often with a cigar shaped bulb of lead at the bottom and generally made of metal Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resistance to lateral motion through the water...
Keeled
Keel shaped having a longitudinal prominence on the back as a keeled leaf...
Finned
Having a fin or fins or anything resembling a fin...
Keels
Keels, vessels for the carriage of coals....
Soft finned
Having the fin rays cartilaginous or flexible without spines said of certain fishes...
Carinate
Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship having a carina or keel as a carinate calyx or leaf a carinate sternum of a bird...
Keelson
A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel and binding the floor timbers to the keel in iron vessels a structure of plates situated like the keelson of a timber ship...
fine
fine [Anglo-French fin fine & Medieval Latin finis end, boundary, agreement, payment for release or privilege, monetary penalty, from Latin finis end, boundary] 1 : a sum imposed as punishment for an offense compare restitution 2 : a forfeiture or penalty paid to an injured party in a civil action vt fined fin·ing : to impose a fine on : punish by fine ...
finger
finger fin·gered fin·ger·ing : to accuse or identify as guilty [was fingered simply because he fit the stereotype of a young, black street criminal "Jack Ewing"] ...
Finlet
A little fin one of the parts of a divided fin...
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