Details of word KEEL

Definition of keel

v. t. & i. - To cool; to skim or stir.
n. - A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
n. - A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson.
n. - Fig.: The whole ship.
n. - A barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.
n. - The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.
n. - A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface.
v. i. - To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
v. i. - To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
n. - 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.

Word "keel" contains 4 letters : E E K L

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