单词 | centreboard |
释义 | centreboard (once / 173814 pages) n WORD FAMILY centreboard: centreboards USAGE EXAMPLESThe place was brightly lighted by a nickelled lamp, though it was scarcely four feet high and the centreboard trunk occupied the middle of it. Bindloss, Harold, The Protector(2011) It is fitted with a centreboard, and is an excellent cruising craft. Various, Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1...(2010) The centreboard is of the "dagger" pattern so commonly seen in the small bateau and skiff on the Shrewsbury River and vicinity. Various, Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895(2010) n a retractable fin keel used on sailboats to prevent drifting to leeward Syn|Hypo|Hyper centerboard, drop keel, sliding keel daggerboard a removable centerboard on a small sailboat that can be lowered into the water to serve as a keel fin keel a metal plate projecting from the keel of a shallow vessel to give it greater lateral stability |
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