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Cutter :: Cutter (n.) A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead..

Keel :: Keel (n.) A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.

Keeled :: Keeled (a.) Having a median ridge; carinate; as, a keeled scale..

Keeler :: Keeler (n.) A small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc..

Bicarinate :: Bicarinate (a.) Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses..

Keelhaul :: Keelhaul (v. i.) To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies..

Keel :: Keel (v. i.) To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

Centreboard :: Centreboard (n.) A movable or sliding keel 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 leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States.

Flat :: Flat (n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught..

Boatbill :: Boatbill (n.) A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.

Carina :: Carina (n.) A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat.

Keelage :: Keelage (n.) The right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port; also, the duty or toll..

Carina :: Carina (n.) The keel of the breastbone of birds.

Keelson :: Keelson (n.) A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship..

Skeel :: Skeel (n.) A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream.

Keel :: Keel (v. t. & i.) To cool; to skim or stir.

Keeling :: Keeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kee.

Gonys :: Gonys (n.) The keel or lower outline of a bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united..

Heel :: Heel (n.) The after end of a ship's keel.

Skeg :: Skeg (n.) The after part of the keel of a vessel, to which the rudder is attached..

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