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Home Dictionary Name: keels Page 1 of about 35 results ( seconds)Keels
keels vessels for the carriage of coals
Keels
ninepins see kayles
Keeled
keel shaped having a longitudinal prominence on the back as a keeled leaf
Fin 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
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
VerbarRatitaelig
an order of birds in which the wings are small rudimentary or absent and the breastbone is destitute of a keel the ostrich emu moa and apteryx are examples
Knockabout
a small yacht generally from fifteen to twenty five feet in length having a mainsail and a jib a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit all knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard the original type was twenty one feet in length the next larger type is called a raceabout
VerbarLophosteon
the central keel bearing part of the sternum in birds
Multicarinate
many keeled
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