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Definition of Keelless
1. having no keel (the main structural part of a ship) [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keelless
Literary usage of Keelless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Oarsman by Rudolf Chambers Lehmann (1908)
"I do not suppose that the College crews entered at Henley in can have imagined
that the Chester crew, who flopped along in the first keelless boat, ..."
2. The Health Exhibition Literature (1884)
"... race—Sculling championship—Henley Regatta—Amateur clubs—Decline in professional
rowing—Boats, changes in build — Outrigger— keelless ..."
3. Athletics; Or, Physical Exercise and Recreation by Edmond Warre (1884)
"... race—Sculling championship—Henley Regatta—Amateur clubs—Decline in professional
rowing—Boats, changes in build — Outrigger — keelless ..."
4. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society, Robert Gray Mayne by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society, Robert Gray Mayne (1882)
"An such u the ostrich, which are fitted for running and not for flying ; the
wings are rudimentary ; sternum keelless; legs very strong; bind toe wanting or ..."
5. Catalogue of the Tortoises, Crocodiles, and Amphisbænians, in the Collection by British Museum (Natural History), John Edward Gray (1844)
"Shell oval, keelless, convex anteriorly, depressed posteriorly, entire in front
... Shell oblong, keelless, olive brown, pale netted, longitudinally rugose, ..."
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