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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



... against the fading skies, I heard its keel slide crunching up the sand, Then turned, and read, deep in the other's eyes, The pain of one who can not understand. Dusk deepened over the insurging seas, And loose sails crackled ...
— The Five Books of Youth • Robert Hillyer
... Rover o' Lochryan, he's gane, Wi' his merry men sae brave; Their hearts are o' the steel, an' a better keel Ne'er bowl'd owre the back o' a wave. Its no when the loch lies dead in his trough When naething disturbs it ava; But the rack and the ride o' the restless tide, Or the splash ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... well out at sea, with Ushant five hundred miles in her wake, and countless fathoms of water beneath her keel, Fisher took a newspaper parcel from his travelling-bag. His teeth were firm set and his lips rigid. He carried the heavy parcel to the side of the ship and dropped it into the Atlantic. It made a little eddy in the smooth water, and sank out of sight. Fisher fancied ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 • Various
... boat had to stop, as her keel scraped the mud in the almost dry thoroughfare, and a plain island man of benevolent, nearly credulous, face, ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend
... your bounds ye chance to light Upon a fine, fat fodgel wight, O' stature short, but genius bright, That's he, mark weel; And wow! he has an unco sleight O' cauk and keel. ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns


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