keel

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

keels

1.
(nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
2.
(nautical) A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
3.
(aeronautics) In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.
4.
(broadly)(by extension) The rigid bottom part of something else, especially an iceberg.
5.
(nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
6.
(zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
7.
(botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
8.
(brewing) A broad, flat vessel used for cooling liquids; a brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
9.
(Scotland)Red chalk; ruddle.

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verb

V_es/s

keels

V_ing/Gerund

keeling

V_ed/pp

keeled

1.
(intransitive)(intransitive, in keel over) To collapse, to fall.
He keeled over after having a stroke.
2.
To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
3.
To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
4.
(obsolete, transitive)To cool; make cool; to cool by stirring or skimming in order to keep from boiling over.
5.
(obsolete, transitive)To moderate the ardour or intensity of; assuage; to appease, pacify, or lessen.
6.
(intransitive, obsolete)To become cool; cool down.
7.
(Scotland, transitive)To mark with ruddle.
8.
(alt of, humorous, nonstandard, pronunciation spelling)Pronunciation spelling of kill.

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From Middle English kele, from Old Norse kjǫlr, itself from Proto-Germanic *keluz, of uncertain origin. Displaced ceol ċēol from a related root. Distantly related to kile.