centreboard
Britishnoun
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Mahogany over a steel frame, with keel, stem, and sternpost of wood, a dagger-plate centreboard streamlined and built of teak, plated with bronze.
From Time Magazine Archive
First they rip off each other's ruby-red ventral fins which look like a sailboat's centreboard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lord Torrington stepped carefully on board and settled himself crouched into a position undignified for a member of the Cabinet, on the side of the centreboard case recommended by Peter Walsh.
From Priscilla's Spies by Birmingham, George A.
J. W. Edwards, 197 Hamilton Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y., a 16-foot flat-bottomed skiff with centreboard, sail, oars and oarlocks, for a 46 or 48-inch rubber-tired steel-spoked bicycle.
From Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 by Elverson, James
Take up the flooring and give the inside of your boat a couple of good coats of paint, devoting particular attention to the centreboard trunk where it joins the keelson.
From Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895 by Various
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