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noun. A freight barge, especially one for carrying coal on the Tyne River in England.

noun. The load capacity of this barge.

noun. A British unit of weight formerly used for coal, equal to about 21.2 long tons.

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noun. The principal structural member of a boat or ship, running along the center of the hull from bow to stern, to which the ribs are attached.

noun. A projecting ridge or fin on the bottom of the hull of a boat or ship that improves directional control and is often weighted for added stability.

noun. The principal structural member of an aircraft, resembling a ship's keel in shape and function.

noun. A structure, such as the breastbone of a bird, that resembles a ship's keel in function or shape.

noun. A pair of united petals in certain flowers, as those of many members of the pea family.

intransitive & transitive verb. To capsize or cause to capsize.

phrasal verb. To collapse or fall into or as if into a faint.

transitive verb. To make cool.

To plow with a keel, as the sea; navigate.

To furnish with a keel.

To turn up the keel; show the bottom.

To give over; cease.

To fall suddenly; tumble down or over, as from fright or a blow, or in a swoon.

To make cool; cool; moderate the heat of, as that of the contents of a pot boiling violently by gently stirring them.

To moderate the ardor or intensity of; assuage; appease; pacify; diminish.

To become cool; cool down.

To mark, as a sheep, with ruddle.

noun. An early form of galley or small ship; a long boat: used with reference to Anglo-Saxon history.

noun. The principal timber in a ship or boat, extending from stem to stern at the bottom, supporting the whole frame, and consisting of a number of pieces scarfed and bolted together; in iron vessels, the combination of plates corresponding to the keel of a wooden vessel.

noun. In botany: A central longitudinal ridge along the back of any organ, as a leaf or glume.

noun. In a papilionaceous corolla, the lower pair of petals, which are more or less united into a prow-shaped body, usually inclosing the stamens and pistil.

noun. Another structure of similar form, as the lower petal in Polygala. Also called carina. See cut under banner.

noun. In zoology, a projecting ridge extending longitudinally along the middle of any surface.

noun. A ship.

noun. A strong, clumsy boat; a barge such as is used by the colliers at Newcastle in England.

noun. Hence A measure of coal, 8 Newcastle chaldrons, equal to 424 hundredweight.

noun. A variant of kail, 1.

noun. An obsolete or dialectal form of kill, kiln.

noun. In brewing, a broad flat vessel used for cooling liquids; a keelfat.

noun. Red chalk; ruddle.

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noun. In architecture, the projecting arris of an edge-molding.

noun. A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.

verb. To cool; to skim or stir.

intransitive verb. To traverse with a keel; to navigate.

intransitive verb. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

intransitive verb. to upset; to capsize.

noun. 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.

noun. Fig.: The whole ship.

noun. A barge or lighter, used on the Tyne for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.

noun. The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.

noun. A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface.

noun. In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aëroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.

noun. a keel peculiar to ironclad vessels, extending only a portion of the length of the vessel under the bilges.

noun. See under False.

"But the responsibility of keeping the Canadian economy on an even keel is not one that should be left primarily or even mainly to the financial system."

false keel  inner keel  on an even keel  to give the keel  to keel over  

keel over  keeled  keelhaul  keeling  

carina  projection  walk  

Biel  Brasil  Camille  Cecile  Cele  

helm  hull  mast  paddle  prow  

argosy  ascend  bank  bark  base  

carina  keelson  

keeled  keeles  keeling  keels