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Camberkeeled :: Camberkeeled (a.) Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; -- said of a ship..

Abeam :: Abeam (adv.) On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side..

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..

Sole :: Sole (n.) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel..

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

Squared :: Square (a.) At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; -- said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced..

Keel :: Keel (n.) Fig.: The whole ship.

Timber :: Timber (n.) A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united..

Keels :: Keels (n. pl.) Ninepins. See Kayles.

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

Keelhauling :: Keelhauling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Keelhau.

Ratitae :: Ratitae (n. pl.) An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples..

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..

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

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

Outboard :: Outboard (a. & adv.) Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; in a direction from the hull or from the keel; -- opposed to inboard; as, outboard rigging; swing the davits outboard..

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

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

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..

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