centreboard
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Mahogany over a steel frame, with keel, stem, and sternpost of wood, a dagger-plate centreboard streamlined and built of teak, plated with bronze.
From Time Magazine Archive
First they rip off each other's ruby-red ventral fins which look like a sailboat's centreboard.
From Time Magazine Archive
A great number of Americans—and I am one of them—would have preferred to see Defender built on the American centreboard plan, all of American material, and without borrowing British ideas, especially as to the boom.
From Harper's Round Table, September 17, 1895 by Various
“Maybe she was a centreboard, and that’s where you kept the board.”
From The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. by Bangs, John Kendrick
He grasped the centreboard case, the nearest stable thing at hand, and pulled himself up again into the middle of the boat.
From Priscilla's Spies by Birmingham, George A.
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