Differencing these two quantities, following the principle of Archimedes, we arrive at what is called the 'freeboard'. From Wordnik.com. [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference
The freeboard is a bit low but who cares?. From Wordnik.com. [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference
"No masts and not as much freeboard as a schooner.". From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Engineer]
We got in at last with an inch of freeboard to spare. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Dorrin jabs at the largest, a bark with a high freeboard. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Engineer]
This is to ensure that the full freeboard is available during floods. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It was beamy and had a fairly high bow, but had low freeboard amidships. From Wordnik.com. [Death on a Vineyard Beach] Reference
But she has a low freeboard, and the guns, therefore, get no plunging fire. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887] Reference
We had prepared better than we ever have for a 49-foot flood with a three foot freeboard. From Wordnik.com. [President Remarks In Briefing On Flood Damage In Nd] Reference
(There was about four inches of freeboard, so we could hear the people on the other side.). From Wordnik.com. [a day without a bruise is wasted.] Reference
Breakers were three to four feet. 14 The DD rigging provided about three feet of freeboard. From Wordnik.com. [Steel Victory]
Davis is contemptuous about her low freeboard forward; says he would rather go to sea in the Dulce. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
The low freeboard was garishly painted in stripes of red and gold; the topworks were white, brass-trimmed. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
This one ended up traveling all the way to Asia, which is a scary thought for a ship with a few feet of freeboard. From Wordnik.com. [Mixed greens] Reference
He caught at the hempen cable, swarmed up it, and, the gallivat having but little freeboard, soon reached the bulwark. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
With the draught above mentioned, which gives a freeboard of 3 feet, there would thus be 380 tons available for cargo. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912] Reference
Boldly coloured round shields lined the wash strake, increasing her freeboard and protecting her passengers from flying spray. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
This weight was actually exceeded by 100 tons, which left a freeboard of only 20 inches when the ship sailed on her first voyage. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912] Reference
By the time half our company was overboard, the boat had a reasonably high freeboard and was less ticklish to handle in the gusts. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19] Reference
The little boat had only a couple of cubits of freeboard, and it was not difficult to brace my foot on the rudder and vault over the stern. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
While the ship was being built, he proposed she should be named the "Monitor," and the name became a general term for low-freeboard turret-ships. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
The assembly acted as a flotation device, allowing the tank to displace its own weight in water and giving the vehicle about three feet of freeboard. From Wordnik.com. [Steel Victory]
She had a freeboard of six or seven feet, and possessed neither cabin nor staterooms, the space between the superstructure and the rail being about three feet wide. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
The much lower freeboard did not matter to a winged race, but it would be important that their crews were not very skilled sailorsBut at least the Lannachska were fighters. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
The normal cruising line gave her a freeboard of ten feet. From Wordnik.com. [The World Peril of 1910] Reference
Her long waist lay low, promising little freeboard in a sea. From Wordnik.com. [Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918] Reference
I was thoroughly seasick, retching and vomiting over the narrow freeboard. From Wordnik.com. [Greener Than You Think] Reference
Go into your cabin, if possible, or keep a low profile below the freeboard. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily News - News] Reference
"I suppose it's a good thing to have all the freeboard at the bow you can, also," he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest] Reference
He straddled easily over the schooner's scant freeboard and came aft, and was greeted cordially by Captain Candage. From Wordnik.com. [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference
With her shallow draught and high freeboard she rolled like a barrel, since speed was essential to impart steadiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference
These benches were so compactly adjusted that the naval architects allowed only two feet of freeboard for every bank of oars. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Sea Power] Reference
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