Crossword clues for centerboard
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Centerboard \Cen"ter*board`\, Centreboard \Cen"tre*board\,, n. (Naut.) A retractable or sliding keel used on sailboats, 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 drifting to leeward when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States
Syn: centreboard, drop keel, sliding keel.
Wiktionary
n. (label en American spelling nautical) (alternative spelling of centreboard English)
WordNet
n. a retractable fin keel used on sailboats to prevent drifting to leeward [syn: centreboard, drop keel, sliding keel]
Usage examples of "centerboard".
The design was the one called Chesapeake Bay bugeye, which meant that she had a flat bottom, a centerboard, a rakish clipper bow, and the masts slanted back at a dashing angle.
Presently he bumped into the centerboard, which was down, but not hard enough, he hoped, to be heard on the schooner.
It was hardly more than a surfboard dressed up with a mast, rudder, centerboard, and a cramped little cockpit into which you could stick your feet as you sat on the open deck a few inches above the water.
We checked the rudder, slipped the centerboard into its slot, hoisted the sail, and scrambled aboard.
He has taken from the but a rudder, a centerboard, and two life jackets of black foam rubber.
He remembers how Cindy that time stood on the centerboard and the Sunfish came upright again, its mast hurling arcs of droplets against the sky.
The pain in his chest gathers to such a red internal blaze that he squeezes his eyes shut to blot it out, and blindly then he feels with a suck of release the sail lift free of the water and the centerboard under him plunge toward vertical.
The Sunfish bobs in the breaking waves of shallow water, and Judy pulls up the centerboard and jumps off into water up to her shiny hips and pulls the boat like a barge through the last yards before the bow scrapes sand.
Does this influence the choice of this target for initial Centerboard operation?
Seth was coating the centerboard with Rust-Oleum so the steel plate gleamed with wet.
Phillip had the nastier job of soaking the inside of the centerboard case with creosote.
Behind them was a table with a vertical centerboard studded with instruments registering their measurements and recording devices vomiting paper trails, all inside a wicker enclosure.
She was sixteen feet long, equipped with centerboard, and cat-rigged with a single triangular sail.
A few minutes later, Karl lifted the centerboard, while the newsman eased the bow up onto the beach with as effortless a skill as Steve had ever seen.
For, while Karl had been handling the tiller, he had been sitting on the centerboard trunk recalling his meeting with the stranger.