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centreboard

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centreboard [ˈsɛntəˌbɔːd]
n
(Transport / Nautical Terms) a supplementary keel for a sailing vessel, which may be adjusted by raising and lowering Compare daggerboard
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Noun1.centreboard - a retractable fin keel used on sailboats to prevent drifting to leeward
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
sailboat, sailing boat - a small sailing vessel; usually with a single mast
Translations
centreboard centerboard (US) [ˈsentəbɔːd] N → orza f de deriva
centreboard [ˈsɛntəˌbɔːd] n (Naut) → deriva
centreboard [ˈsɛntəˌbɔːd] n (Naut) → deriva


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When I was fourteen, my head filled with the tales of the old voyagers, my vision with tropic isles and far sea-rims, I was sailing a small centreboard skiff around San Francisco Bay and on the Oakland Estuary.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
She was a big, flat-bottomed, square-sterned craft, sloop-rigged, with a sprung mast, slack rigging, dilapidated sails, and rotten running-gear, clumsy to handle and uncertain in bringing about, and she smelled vilely of coal tar, with which strange stuff she had been smeared from stem to stern and from cabin-roof to centreboard.
Tales of the Fish Patrol by London, Jack View in context
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