keelless
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of keelless
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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 Robert Lynd
Poling a rudderless, keelless skiff up a crooked stream by means of a fifteen-foot balancing pole is an art only to be classed with that of rowing a gondola.
From The Under Dog by Francis Hopkinson Smith
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
Just a similar sort of prejudice was displayed against the earlier style of rowing in keelless boats.
From Boating by W. B. Woodgate
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 Frank T. Bullen
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