centreboard
Britishnoun
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First they rip off each other's ruby-red ventral fins which look like a sailboat's centreboard.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
J. G. Ross, Mariner’s Harbor, Staten Island, N.Y., a 12-foot round-bottomed row-boat with centreboard and oars, for a photographic outfit, a bicycle or a press.
From Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 by James Elverson
His black eyes were flashing eagerly, and his face was flushed with suppressed excitement, as he dropped the centreboard, sprang forward with a single leap, and put up the sail.
From Tales of the Fish Patrol by George Varian
The amateur skipper cast off from the little dock, lowered the centreboard, and stretched himself lazily in the stern, with one hand on the tiller.
From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Maud Wilder Goodwin
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