Definitions for centerboards

centerboards cen·ter·board

Spelling: [sen-ter-bawrd, -bohrd]
IPA: /ˈsɛn tərˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd/

Centerboards is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 1919 anagrams from letters in centerboards (abcdeenorrst).

Definitions for centerboards

noun

  1. a pivoted fin keel that can be swung upward and aft within a watertight trunk when not in use.

Origin of centerboards

An Americanism dating back to 1840-50; center + board

Examples for centerboards

I felt the centerboard drop; a patch of sail rose on the main.

You were right in insisting on shallow draught and a centerboard.

Will you shove the centerboard down by the iron handle, and then take hold of the tiller, Miss Haldane?

If I could get to the centerboard and drop it, I believed the sloop would ride better and could be steered.

Jonadab rolled up his shirt sleeves and laid hands on the centerboard stick.

It was long, narrow, and low in freeboard and was fitted with a centerboard.

While fully aware of its disadvantages, I am a firm believer in the centerboard for small cruising boats.

This makes it almost impossible to dispense with the centerboard in small boats.

I leaped down into the cockpit and quickly lowered the centerboard.

Joe dropped the centerboard and returned, to be stationed at the jib-sheet.

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