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keel

KEEL, n.

1. The principal timber in a ship, extending from stem to stern at the bottom, and supporting the whole frame.

2. A low flat-bottomed vessel, used in the river Tyne, to convey coals from Newcastle for loading the colliers.

3. In botany, the lower petal of a papilionaceous corol, inclosing the stamens and pistil.

False keel, a strong thick piece of timber, bolted to the bottom of the keel, to preserve it from injury.

On an even keel, in a level or horizontal position.

KEEL, v.t. To cool.

KEEL, v.t. To plow with a keel; to navigate.

1. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

To keel the pot, in Ireland, to scum it.




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KEEL, n.

1. The principal timber in a ship, extending from stem to stern at the bottom, and supporting the whole frame.

2. A low flat-bottomed vessel, used in the river Tyne, to convey coals from Newcastle for loading the colliers.

3. In botany, the lower petal of a papilionaceous corol, inclosing the stamens and pistil.

False keel, a strong thick piece of timber, bolted to the bottom of the keel, to preserve it from injury.

On an even keel, in a level or horizontal position.

KEEL, v.t. To cool.

KEEL, v.t. To plow with a keel; to navigate.

1. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

To keel the pot, in Ireland, to scum it.


KEEL, n. [Sax. cæle; G. and D. kiel; Dan. kiil, kiol; Russ. kil; Sw. köl; Fr. quille; Sp. quilla; Port. quilha. The word, in different languages, signifies a keel, a pin, kayle, and a quill; probably from extending.]

  1. The principal timber in a ship, extending from stem to stern at the bottom, and supporting the whole frame. – Mar. Dict.
  2. A low flat-bottomed vessel, used in the river Tyne, to convey coals from Newcastle for loading the colliers.
  3. In botany, the lower petal of a papilionaceous corol, inclosing the stamens and pistil. – Martyn. False keel, a strong thick piece of timber, bolted to the bottom of the keel, to preserve it from injury. On an even keel, in a level or horizontal position.

KEEL, v.t.1 [Sax. cælan.]

To cool. [Obs.] – Gower.


KEEL, v.t.2

  1. To plow with a keel; to navigate. – J. Barlow.
  2. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom. – Shak. To keel the pot, in Ireland, to scum it. – Shak.

Keel
  1. To cool; to skim or stir.

    [Obs.]

    While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. Shak.

  2. A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
  3. A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson.
  4. To traverse with a keel] to navigate.
  5. In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aëroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.
  6. Fig.: The whole ship.
  7. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

    To keel over, to upset; to capsize. [Colloq.]

  8. A barge or lighter, used on the Tyne for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.

    [Eng.]
  9. The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.
  10. A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface.

    Bilge keel (Naut.), a keel peculiar to ironclad vessels, extending only a portion of the length of the vessel under the bilges. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- False keel. See under False. -- Keel boat. (a) A covered freight boat, with a keel, but no sails, used on Western rivers. [U. S.] (b) A low, flat-bottomed freight boat. See Keel, n., 3. -- Keel piece, one of the timbers or sections of which a keel is composed. -- On even keel, in a level or horizontal position, so that the draught of water at the stern and the bow is the same. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

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Keel

KEEL, noun

1. The principal timber in a ship, extending from stem to stern at the bottom, and supporting the whole frame.

2. A low flat-bottomed vessel, used in the river Tyne, to convey coals from Newcastle for loading the colliers.

3. In botany, the lower petal of a papilionaceous corol, inclosing the stamens and pistil.

False keel a strong thick piece of timber, bolted to the bottom of the keel to preserve it from injury.

On an even keel in a level or horizontal position.

KEEL, verb transitive To cool.

KEEL, verb transitive To plow with a keel; to navigate.

1. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

To keel the pot, in Ireland, to scum it.

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