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Keel

noun

A projection or ridge that suggests a keel.

The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.

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)

Walk as if unable to control one's movements. Synonyms: careen, lurch, reel, stagger, swag.

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"Keel" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

... as steel, For me let hap what may; I might make shift upon the keel Until the break ...

— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner

... the upturned canoe and the almost exhausted boy clinging to it. He drove his own craft alongside and reaching quickly seized Enoch's shoulder, bearing him up as the youth's own hands slipped from their resting-place on the keel of the canoe. "Courage—courage!" cried the scout, heartily. "You are not goin' down yet, ...

— With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga • W. Bert Foster

... back of the canoe's center on the right side and the other was forward on the left. The weight of the three occupants was balanced so nicely that their delicate craft floated on a perfectly even keel. The lad near the prow was an Indian of a nobler type than is often seen in these later days, when he has been deprived of the native surroundings that fit him like the setting of ...

— The Hunters of the Hills • Joseph Altsheler

... fact were not established by the most unquestionable evidence, we should appear to abuse the credulity of our readers, by the description of the vessels in which the Saxon pirates ventured to sport in the waves of the German Ocean, the British Channel, and the Bay of Biscay. The keel of their large flat-bottomed boats were framed of light timber, but the sides and upper works consisted only of wicker, with a covering of strong hides. [104] In the course of their slow and distant navigations, they must always have been exposed to the danger, ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

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