sliding keel

Questions about sliding keel

What does sliding keel mean?

sliding keel means "a retractable fin keel used on sailboats to prevent drifting to leeward".

What is another word for sliding keel?

Close synonyms include centerboard, centreboard, drop keel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sliding keel a common word?

sliding keel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.