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

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keelless

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 Theodore Roosevelt

Every vessel had several keelless whale-boats, pointed at both bow and stern, so that they could be rowed forwards or backwards.

From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin

The boats used are half-outrigged, clinker, keelless fours, fixed seats, with a twenty-six-inch beam.

From Rowing by Rudolf Chambers Lehmann

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 1855 the first keelless 8-oar made its appearance at Henley, built by Mat Taylor for the Royal Chester Rowing Club.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various