whaleback

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A kind of cargo steamship with a hull that continuously curves above the waterline from vertical to horizontal.
2. noun A landform (typically a sand dune) having the form of the back of a whale.

Similar words

cutwater washback line tub gunwale turret deck waterline water line pitchback backwash bow wave

Often followed by

steamer of light barge and deck barges was steamers

Word family

whalebacks