false keel

noun

an extension to the keel of a vessel either for protecting the keel from damage or for reducing leeway

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How to use false keel in a sentence

When it was finished a false keel six inches in depth in the centre, tapering away to nothing at the ends, was fixed underneath.
Condemned as a Nihilist | George Alfred Henty
The light of the moon showed the sheathing boards of the ship floating all round, and at last her false keel.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 | Various
The sheathing from the bow on that side was torn off, and a great part of the false keel was gone.
Captain Cook | W.H.G. Kingston
It was afterwards found that a great part of the gripe and false keel were knocked away.
Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 | Robert FitzRoy
Columbus refitted her, put on a false keel, furnished her with a mast and sail.
The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals | Edward Everett Hale

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