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[ keel-lis ] / ˈkil lɪs /
adjectivehaving no keel, as a ship. Origin of keellessFirst recorded in 1875–80; keel1 + -less Words nearby keellessKeeler, Keeley, keelhaul, keelie, Keeling Islands, keelless, keel over, keelson, Keelung, keel vessel, keen Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for keellessTheir performances will be found under the description of the first keelless eight. From that time the keelless racing boat has held its own, fours and pairs and sculling boats all following suit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1|Various Two very usual club rules are, that juniors shall not begin by racing in keelless crank boats, but in steady ‘tub’-built craft. We well recollect the sensation produced by the first keelless eight, that of Chester, in 1856.
Before we got there, though, there was an upheaval in the water just ahead, and up came a back like a keelless ship bottom up. The Cruise of the Cachalot|Frank T. Bullen
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