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Keel   /kil/   Listen
Keel

noun
1.
A projection or ridge that suggests a keel.
2.
The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
3.
One of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability.
verb
(past & past part. keeled; pres. part. keeling)
1.
Walk as if unable to control one's movements.  Synonyms: careen, lurch, reel, stagger, swag.



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"Keel" Quotes from Famous Books



... wash!—Calais has retired miles inland, and Dover has burst out to look for it. It has a last dip and slide in its character, has Calais, to be specially commended to the infernal gods. Thrice accursed be that garrison-town, when it dives under the boat's keel, and comes up a league or two to the right, with the packet shivering and spluttering and staring ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie
... nothing to aid the party on the motor-yacht; and until it got under way again Mr. Hammond was acutely anxious. It rolled so that he expected it to turn keel up at ...
— Ruth Fielding Down East - Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point • Alice B. Emerson
... improvement was not sufficient to make it worthy of reliance at this crisis. As has been said, there was money enough, and every ship-yard in the country could be set to work to build ironclad men-of-war: but it takes a long time to build ships, and England's navy was afloat. It was the British keel that America had ...
— The Great War Syndicate • Frank Stockton
... Aeolus and the roar of the storm-fiend. Then it is grand and awful in its majesty; and when I see it so it makes me mad with a triumphant sense of power in overriding it—as it boils beneath the vessel's keel, longing to overwhelm it and me, yet ...
— She and I, Volume 2 - A Love Story. A Life History. • John Conroy Hutcheson
... showing me the glories of Pondicherry himself, an offer which I, anxious to see a Franco-Indian town, readily accepted. There is no harbour there, and owing to the heavy surf, the landing must be made in a surf-boat, a curious keel-less craft built of thin pliant planks sewn together with copper wire, which bobs about on the surface of the water like a cork. At Pondicherry, as in all French Colonial possessions, an attempt has been made to reproduce a little piece of France. There was the dusty ...
— Here, There And Everywhere • Lord Frederic Hamilton


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