单词 | unkeeled |
释义 | unkeeledadj. 1. Of a ship or boat: having no keel. Cf. keeled adj. a. ΚΠ 1788 Public Advertiser 8 Sept. Proper ballast machines on board large lighters or unkeeled shipping. 1839 J. P. Robertson & W. P. Robertson Lett. on Paraguay III. xiv. 195 The various keeled and unkeeled vessels that sailed on the waters of the Paraguay and Paraná. 1873 E. J. Webber Brit. Guiana 3 The river men's canisters, hammocks, &c., &c., being stowed in three unkeeled boats. 1955 R. E. Riegel & D. F. Long Amer. Story I. xvii. 207/1 The Western boat..had an extremely shallow draft to enable it to navigate the typical Western river—the origin of the idea of the unkeeled boat. 1997 D. K. Abbass & J. Zarzynski in J. P. Delgado Encycl. Underwater & Maritime Archaeol. 238/1 It [sc. a radeau] is an unkeeled seven-sided vessel. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [adjective] > unfrequented > untrodden or untraversed untroddena1300 unpassed1542 unsaileda1572 unridden1574 untroda1593 unpractised1621 unpassen1624 untouched1628 untraced1641 untravelled1646 untrampled1648 unwalked1648 unwandered1654 unploughed1655 uninfested1670 unentered1774 unkeeled1807 untraversed1807 unscaled1812 unvoyaged1816 unfooted1818 unthrid1843 unthreaded1895 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 45 Their waves unkeel'd, their havens unexplored. 1865 Christian Examiner May 333 As if we were sailing an unkeeled sea. 1894 A. J. Stringer Watchers of Twilight 4 A strange sad sea, where silence erewhile slept, Unkeeled, untravelled, isling golden realms. 1909 Contemp. Rev. July 6 The marvellous and, for them, unkeeled ocean of literature. 3. Botany and Zoology. Of part of a plant or animal: not having a central ridge along its convex surface. Cf. keel n.1 4. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > ridge channel > [adjective] > not having ribs ribless1777 unkeeled1848 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [adjective] > having or not having a keel keeled1848 unkeeled1848 centreboard1849 keelless1879 1848 Proc. Zool. Soc. London 16 99 Shields on the muzzle separated by small scales; muzzle with four many-sided, convex, unkeeled plates on each side. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 258 The glabrous unkeeled sepals. 1955 G. Cansdale Reptiles W. Afr. ii. 27 The West African House Snake looks smooth, but not polished, with many rows of small unkeeled scales and a head not very distinct from the body. 2006 Brittonia 58 36/1 Habenaria cryptophila also differs by the broader, oblong-lanceolate, flat, unkeeled leaves. 2012 Jrnl. Mammalogy 93 860/1 Manual claws small and unkeeled. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1788 |
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