Definition of keel

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Keel (n.) A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.

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Keelivine :: Keelivine (n.) A pencil of black or red lead; -- called also keelyvine pen.
Keel :: Keel (n.) A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
Skeelgoose :: Skeelgoose (n.) The common European sheldrake.
Skeel :: Skeel (n.) A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream.
Stem-winder :: Stemson (n.) A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow..
Multicarinate :: Multicarinate (a.) Many-keeled.
Rake :: Rake (n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel..
Vakeel :: Vakeel (n.) A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador..
Rockered :: Rockered (a.) Shaped like a rocker; curved; as, a rockered keel..
Keel :: Keel (n.) Fig.: The whole ship.
Stem :: Stem (n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow..
Keeled :: Keeled (a.) Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as, a keeled leaf..
Floor :: Floor (n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
Cutter :: Cutter (n.) A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead..
Gonys :: Gonys (n.) The keel or lower outline of a bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united..
Keeling :: Keeling (n.) A cod.
Careen :: Careen (v. i.) To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel..
Skeg :: Skeg (n.) The after part of the keel of a vessel, to which the rudder is attached..
Keeler :: Keeler (n.) One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; -- called also keelman.
Carinatae :: Carinatae (n. pl.) A grand division of birds, including all existing flying birds; -- So called from the carina or keel on the breastbone..
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