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drop keel

noun

, Nautical.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of drop keel1

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Example Sentences

While diving to the bottom early that morning she struck an obstacle and knocked off her forward drop-keel.

I wondered whether I could have swum far with a cracked skull: the Moondaisy's iron drop-keel would have sunk her, of course.

The drop-keel was for the first time placed in a life-boat in 1885.

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