keelless

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

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

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

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

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

1 Boat Design, Construction, and Propulsion 1987

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 Various

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 1925

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 1925

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

The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914

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 Sven Anders Hedin 1908

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 Theodore Roosevelt 1888

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 Walter R. Nursey 1887