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Rider :: Rider (n.) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame..

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

Sterna :: Sternson (n.) The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee..

Sloop :: Sloop (n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See

Vakeel :: Vakeel (n.) A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador..

Rockered :: Rockered (a.) Shaped like a rocker; curved; as, a rockered keel..

Water Line :: Water line () Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel..

Unicarinated :: Unicarinated (a.) Having one ridge or keel.

Multicarinate :: Multicarinate (a.) Many-keeled.

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

Square :: Square (n.) To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards..

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

Water Line :: Water line () Any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded..

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.

Garboard :: Garboard (n.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake..

Kelson :: Kelson (n.) See Keelson.

Keel :: Keel (n.) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina..

Back :: Back (n.) The keel and keelson of a ship.

Limber :: Limber (n.) Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to afford a passage for water to the pump well.

Skeelgoose :: Skeelgoose (n.) The common European sheldrake.

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