Sentence examples for a keel from inspiring English sources

Under the cloud of a points penalty for a keel fin deemed illegal.

Like fish, almost all cetaceans possess a dorsal fin that serves as a keel.

The massive rudder takes the place of a keel, or centreboard.

A pressure ridge is composed of a sail above the waterline and a keel below.

The sternum lacked a keel, the humerus was small and weak, and other elements of the wing were missing entirely.

The tail is usually densely haired, and in some species the hairs form a keel along the underside.

There was a keel-damaging grounding, then a mainsail-shredding storm.

In which case Terry Gilliam is first for a keel-hauling.

That stress-resistance is provided by muscles which are attached to a keel-like extension of the sternum.

Beneath the 128-metre (420-foot) craft a keel-like structure connected two external cars, each of which contained a 16-horsepower engine geared to two propellers.

The shape of an upturned galleon (see the model, pictured above), it will have a metal roof made of used oildrums beaten flat, and a keel-like beam running the whole length of the building, from which sculptures can be moved about on rails.