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Knockabout

and no bowsprit All knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard The original type was twenty one feet in

VerbarLophosteon

The central keel bearing part of the sternum in birds

Skag

An additional piece fastened to the keel of a boat to prevent lateral motion See Skeg

Outboard

hull in a direction from the hull or from the keel opposed to inboard as outboard rigging swing the davits outboard

VerbarRatitaelig

rudimentary or absent and the breastbone is destitute of a keel The ostrich emu moa and apteryx are examples

Rockered

Shaped like a rocker curved as a rockered keel

Keelhaul

To haul under the keel of a ship by ropes attached to the yardarms on

Sloop

for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880 One radical

Bottomry Bond, or Contract, also Bottomree, or Bummaree

of mortgage or hypothecation of a ship, by which her keel or bottom is pledged (partum pro toto) as a security

keel over

To drop down in a faint or as if dead to die

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