keelless

American  

[keel-lis] / ˈkil lɪs /

adjective

1. having no keel, as a ship.

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Etymology

Origin of keelless

First recorded in 1875–80; keel ¹ + -less

Example Sentences

While sailing well when before the wind, they yet, with their defective rig and keelless bottoms, carrying no weather helm, made little headway with the wind close abeam.

From The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 by Nursey, Walter R.

He originally wrote “the wide casements” and “keelless seas”: the wide casements, opening on the foam Of keelless seas, in fairy lands forlorn.

From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert

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.

Six or eight years after the close of the Revolution the vast stretches of brown water, swirling ceaselessly between the melancholy forests, were already furrowed everywhere by the keeled and keelless craft.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Roosevelt, Theodore

Two very usual club rules are, that juniors shall not begin by racing in keelless crank boats, but in steady ‘tub’-built craft.

From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.