keelless
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of keelless
Example Sentences
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Before we got there, though, there was an upheaval in the water just ahead, and up came a back like a keelless ship bottom up.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Bullen, Frank T.
We swept along before the wind, unsteadily, over Lake Chesuncook, at sea in a bowl,—"rolled to starboard, rolled to larboard," in our keelless craft.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
In a season or two style reasserted itself, and it was found that it was by no means impossible to row in as neat a shape in a keelless boat as in a keeled one.
From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.
Their performances will be found under the description of the first keelless eight.
From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.
The Kayans were glad to provide prahus, the keelless boats which are used by both Dayak and Malay.
From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Lumholtz, Carl
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