Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A movable keel in a sailboat that can be pivoted upward to reduce the boat's draft in shallow water.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shifting keel passing through a slot in a boat's bottom and swinging on a pin at the forward lower corner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A retractable or sliding keel used on sailboats, formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent drifting to leeward when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
centreboard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a retractable fin keel used on sailboats to prevent drifting to leeward
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Examples
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A centerboard is a wooden or metal fin housed in a centerboard trunk.
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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A centerboard is a wooden or metal fin housed in a centerboard trunk.
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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By saving money, by earning more, and by each of us foregoing a bicycle on his birthday, we had collected the purchase price of the Mist, a beamy twenty-eight-footer, sloop-rigged, with baby topsail and centerboard.
To Repel Boarders 2010
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A centerboard-case divided the room in half longitudinally, and to this was attached the hinged table from which they ate.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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There was a table in the center which was split by a centerboard slot.
Boats Owned By Writer Jack London:Jack London's Ranch Album 2010
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Of all things mechanical, he loved sailboats the most, planing into the wind with a sheet of canvas, a centerboard and a tiller, which he picked up from perusing the Horatio Hornblower novels.
garrison keillor | when your brother dies « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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A curtain, easily attached by hooks between the centerboard-case and the roof, at night screened Mrs. Hastings 'sleeping quarters.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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The boat was a Raven, it was an open, centerboard boat and all my sailing, with the exception of a few races in a Laser, were all on large, ocean type, keel boats.
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You wouldn't have seen that sailboat on there three years ago before the renovations, because the weeds would have been grabbing its centerboard and it probably would have been in constant danger of running aground!
Photo of the Weekend: Wascana Lake Edward Willett 2006
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He dropped the centerboard and un-lashed the mast from the side of the boat.
Reiffeins Choice 2006
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