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Outboard

beyond or outside of the lines of a vessels bulwarks or hull in a direction from the hull or from the keel opposed to inboard as outboard rigging swing the davits outboard


Sloop

..... carries a centerboard and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel the two types have rapidly approximated since 1880 one radical distinction is that a sloop .....


Rockered

shaped like a rocker curved as a rockered keel


Skag

an additional piece fastened to the keel of a boat to prevent lateral motion see skeg


Keeling

a cod


Bottomry Bond, or Contract, also Bottomree, or Bummaree

..... bottomree or bummaree a species of mortgage or hypothecation of a ship by which her keel or bottom is pledged partum pro toto as a security for the repayment of a .....


Keelhale, Keelhaul, or Keelrake

keelhale keelhaul or keelrake to drag a person under the keel of a ship by means of ropes from the yardarms a punishment formerly practised in the navy


New building

..... the case of temporary buildings q v rodwell v wade 1924 23 lgr 174 and keeling v wirral rural district council 1925 23 lgr 201 s 23 of the english public .....


keel over

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


VerbarGonys

the keel or lower outline of a birds bill so far as the mandibular rami are united


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