keelless

• “The living ratites, with their keelless sternums, are all big gawky wonders with useless little wings.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Song of The Dodo

• “Rafts are keelless vessels that are common in many areas of Asia.”

  1 Boat Design, Construction, and Propulsion

• “We swept along before the wind, unsteadily, over Lake Chesuncook, at sea in a bowl, -- "rolled to starboard, rolled to larboard," in our keelless craft.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862

• “Other craft are keelless -- they are canoes; bobbing, unsteady, likely to capsize in sudden emergency; prone to drift into muddy waters; liable to be swept anywhither by any current.”

  Once Aboard the Lugger

• “Amongst well-trimmed boats these learn in time not to adventure, since here they are greeted with ridicule or with contempt; yet among the keelless fleets they have a position of some authority; holding it on the same principle as that by which among beggars he who has a coin -- even though base -- is accounted king.”

  Once Aboard the Lugger

• “He originally wrote "the wide casements" and "keelless seas": the wide casements, opening on the foam”

  The Art of Letters

• “Every vessel had several keelless whale-boats, pointed at both bow and stern, so that they could be rowed forwards or backwards.”

  From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People

• “Six or eight years after the close of the Revolution the vast stretches of brown water, swirling ceaselessly between the melancholy forests, were already furrowed everywhere by the keeled and keelless craft.”

  The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790

• “While sailing well when before the wind, they yet, with their defective rig and keelless bottoms, carrying no weather helm, made little headway with the wind close abeam.”

  The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812

• “Before we got there, though, there was an upheaval in the water just ahead, and up came a back like a keelless ship bottom up.”

  The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales

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