Crossword-Solution: CENTREBOARD
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Centreboard | n. | A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CENTREBOARD | anagram | CENTERBOARD |
We have 4 clues for the answer “CENTREBOARD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BOTTOM side | 5 answers |
| BOTTOM timber | 5 answers |
| BOTTOM of boat | 6 answers |
| Keel | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with CENTREBOARD (5)
When I was fourteen, my head filled with the tales of the old voyagers, my vision with tropic isles and far sea-rims, I was sailing a small centreboard skiff around San Francisco Bay and on the Oakland Estuary.
She was a big, flat-bottomed, square-sterned craft, sloop-rigged, with a sprung mast, slack rigging, dilapidated sails, and rotten running-gear, clumsy to handle and uncertain in bringing about, and she smelled vilely of coal tar, with which strange stuff she had been smeared from stem to stern and from cabin-roof to centreboard.
That’s the centreboard case,” he explained, as, in stretching my legs out, my knee came into contact with a sharp edge.
Hunger and “Tea’s made!” from below brought me down to the cabin, where I found breakfast laid out on the table over the centreboard case, with Davies earnestly presiding, rather flushed as to the face, and sooty as to the fingers.
Recoiling wretchedly, I tried the opposite one, combating the embarrassing heel of the boat and the obstructive edges of the centreboard case.