centreboard
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
It is fitted with a centreboard, and is an excellent cruising craft.
From Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895 by Various
We can keep the centreboard up as we're running, and if we do go on a rock, the tide will lift us off again.
From Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham
“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 John Kendrick Bangs
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