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
"The anchor rope is foul of the centreboard and we can't get either the one or the other of them to move."
From Priscilla's Spies by Birmingham, George A.
If your boat is so small as not to have so many men allotted to it, the centreboard and halyards may be tended by one man.
From Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895 by Various
"I asked," said Priscilla, "because in order to get out of the bay I shall have to jibe, and that means that you've got to hop across the centreboard case."
From Priscilla's Spies by Birmingham, George A.
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