Keel

Definition: Keel

Keel

Noun

1. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.

2. 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

1. Walk as if unable to control one's movements.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "keel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Transportation

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Synonyms: Keel

Base

Bottom, nadir, foot, sole, toe, hoof, keel, root; centerboard.

Inversion

Adjective: inverted; Verb: wrong side out, wrong side up; inside out, upside down; bottom upwards, keel upwards; supine, on one's head, topsy-turvy, sens dessus dessous.

Ship

Catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft,coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel; felucca, caique, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe; galley, galleyfoist; bilander, dogger, hooker, howker; argosy, carack; galliass, galleon; polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah; nuggah; kayak, keel boat, log canoe, pirogue;

Crosswords: Keel

Afrikaan (throat), Dutch (throat).

An Evening with Howard Keel (1985)

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Books

• Anna Keel : Zeichnungen (reference)

• Ben Lexcen: The Man, the Keel and the Cup (reference)

• Keel Kissing Bottom (reference)

• Met dichtgeknepen keel : verhalen (reference)

• The Golden Keel (reference)

  (more book examples)

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"Representation of the Ship Esk of Whitby, Damaged by Ice and Almost Full of Water. During an attempt to invert her position and bring the keel ...." . In: "An account of the Arctic regions with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery", by W. Scoresby. 1820. Frontispiece of Vol. II. Library Call Number G742 .S42 1820 . Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Rescue teams at work on the capsized hull of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), seeking crew members trapped inside, 7 December 1941. The starboard bilge keel is visible at the top of the upturned hull. Officers' Motor Boats from Oklahoma and USS Argonne (AG-31) are in the foreground. USS Maryland (BB-46) is in the background. Credit: NAVY.

Workmen lay the ship's 15-ton keel plate and initial shell plate, in a construction dry dock at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, 18 April 1949. The carrier was cancelled a few days later, on 23 April. Credit: NAVY.

View on the main deck looking aft from amidships, while she was under construction at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, on 4 June 1918. Her keel was laid on 20 November 1917 and she was launched on 29 June 1918. Note Freight Lighter # 53 in the center background. Credit: NAVY.

Keel laying, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 15 January 1919. Credit: NAVY.

Native woman of Keel, a struggling villge of Achill Island, West coast of Ireland. Credit: Library of Congress.

Laying keel of no. 400, Globe Iron Works, Cleveland, O[hio]. Credit: Library of Congress.

Str. Seeandbee on the ways, stern keel. Credit: Library of Congress.

Antiaircraft gun carriage. A leveling socket for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is machined in a turret lathe. The leveling assembly permits the gun to be kept on an even keel on all types of terrain. War program production scene in o. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Subchasers. An old shipwright and a son who came up in the same trade inspect a timber that will be used in the keel of a new subchaser. The father had retired some years ago, but came back to give his skill and experience to an Eastern shipya. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "keel": bilge keel ♦ drop keel ♦ False keel ♦ fin keel ♦ grounding keel ♦ keel arch ♦ keel block ♦ Keel boat ♦ keel draught ♦ keel facing bar ♦ keel over ♦ Keel piece ♦ keep on an even keel ♦ Main keel ♦ on an even keel ♦ on even keel ♦ shoe of a keel ♦ slab keel ♦ sliding keel ♦ to keel over. Additional references.

Beginning with "keel": keel-haul, keel-hauling, keel-marks, keel-scraping.

Albanian

kil (back), përmbys (bring about, capsize, dislocate, overbear, overset, overthrow, overturn, prone, pull over, topsy turvy, uncrown, upset, upturn), anije (argosy, bark, craft, prow, ship, shipboard, vessel, water-craft). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سفينة مسطحة, ‏سفينة (boat, prow, ship), ‏عارضة (beam, crossing, ledger, plinth, role, sitter, spar, template, tie, transom), ‏ذجاجة طويلة, ‏رافدة القص. (various references)

Bulgarian 

управлявам (administer, administrate, con, direct, fly, govern, guide, handle, helm, manage, navigate, operate, rule, run, superintend, take), ръб (arris, board, border, brim, brink, crease, edge, flange, fold, fringe, hem, ledge, limb, list, margin, rand, rib, ridge, rim, shoulder, side), шлеп (barge, scow, tow), кораб (boat, craft, ship, vessel), кил (bottom), вертикален стабилизатор (fin), плувам (be under way, float, pull, ride, sail, steer, swim), плоскодънен кораб (flatboat). (various references)

Chinese 

龍骨 , 船骨 (Keels). (various references)

Czech

kýl. (various references)

Danish

køl (bottom, hull). (various references)

Dutch

kiel (blouse, overalls, smock). (various references)

Esperanto

kilo. (various references)

Faeroese

kjølur. (various references)

Farsi 

مانع سررفتن دیگ شدن , وارونه کردن[کشتی], وارونه شدن , حمال کشتی , تیرته کشتی , زغال کش , عوارض بندری , صفحات اهن ته کشتی , خنک کردن (Cool, Refrigerate), خنک شدن (Chill, Fresh), افتادن (Drop, Fall, Lie, Prostrate, Stump, Tumble). (various references)

Finnish

köli (bottom, hull). (various references)

French

quille. (various references)

Frisian

kyl. (various references)

German

Kiel (Kiel, quill). (various references)

Greek 

καρίνα. (various references)

Hebrew 

ש�"רית, א� י�" (boat, craft, liner, ship, vessel), ספי� ת פחם. (various references)

Hungarian

hajógerinc (keelson, kelson), tőkesúly, hajó (argosy, boat, burden of a ship, composite ship, craft, dingy, man, men, pram, prow, ship, ship not under command, stem, surface ship, vessel, water house). (various references)

Indonesian

terjungkal (overthrown), terbalik (capsize, reverse, rolled back), pingsan (insensible, swoon, unconscious), lunas (paid, settled). (various references)

Italian

chiglia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

竜骨 , ガ行 (buzzword, catch phrase, Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "gu", keep, keeper, keno, key, key advisor, key chain, key club, key currency, key holder, key industry, key market, key point, key punch, key station, keyboard, keyhole, keyhole journalism, keyman, key-map, keynote, keypad, keypuncher, keystone, keystone combination, key-stroke, keysym, key-symbol, key-touch, keyword, kiwi, kiwi fruit, reference sample, the key). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

りゅう�"つ, キール . (various references)

Korean 

용골 (Keels). (various references)

Manx

kiouyl (corporation). (various references)

Norwegian

kjøl. (various references)

Pig Latin

eelkay.(various references)

Portuguese

quilha (back, diving-rudder, flat-boat). (various references)

Romanian

navã (boat, nave, sail, ship, shipboard, vessel), corabie (prow, ship), chilã, carenã (bottom, careen, Hull). (various references)

Russian 

киль (fin). (various references)

Scottish

e� irlin. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kobilica (bridge, centreboard, chine), rtenjača, rashlađivati (cool), položiti brod na bok radi čišćenja, lađa (hooker, prow, ship). (various references)

Spanish

quilla (carina). (various references)

Swedish

köl (bottom, hull). (various references)

Thai

เอียง(เรือ). (various references)

Turkish

yaprak damarı (costal, nervure, rib, trachea), omurga (backbone, Carina, Chine, rachis, spinal coloumn, spine, vertebrae, vertebral column), gemi omurgası (bottom), gemi (bark, boat, craft, ship, vessel). (various references)

Ukrainian

кіль, борознити море, перевертатися кілем угору. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thuyền (cockswain, coxswain, racer, towage), sống t� u thuỷ. (various references)

carina, carinae. (various references)

ceol. (various references)

kielhalen. (various references)

carene. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "keel": keelage, keelages, keelboat, keelboats, keeled, keelhale, keelhaled, keelhales, keelhaling, keelhaul, keelhauled, keelhauling, keelhauls, keeling, keelless, keels, keelson, keelsons. (additional references)

Words ending with "keel": vakeel. (additional references)

Words containing "keel": vakeels. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Keel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Akele, Ceel, ekil, kael, Kaeo, kdel, ke, keal, Kealy, keav, kebele, kedel, keed, keef, keeg, keeh, keek, Keely, keem, keet, Keetly, keev, keex, keez, kege, kegel, Kehl, keia, keil, Keill, keilt, keiv, Keket, kel, Kelb, kelep, kelf, kelg, Kelk, kelm, kelw, kemel, kerel, keu, kewl, kezer, Khel, kial, kibl, kiew, kile, kjel, klee, koil, kole, Kotelo, Koul, Krefelt, Kregel, kue, kule, kvell, kwel, kwell, kyl, kyli, kyll, nkel, Ukele. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: leek, leke.

-1 letter: eel, eke, elk, lee, lek.

-2 letters: el.

+1 letter: cleek, gleek, keels, kelep, kevel, kneel, leeks, sleek.

+2 letters: alkene, belike, cleeks, deckel, deckle, ekuele, gleeks, heckle, keckle, keeled, keenly, kegler, keleps, kelped, kelpie, kelter, kennel, kernel, kettle, kevels, kneels, leaked, leaker, meekly, meikle, shekel, sleeks, sleeky, vakeel, weekly.

+3 letters: alkenes, apelike, bedlike, beelike, befleck, belleek, bleaker, cleeked, clerked, deckels, deckles, eellike, ekpwele, elflike, eyelike, flecked, freckle, gemlike, gleeked, heckled, heckler, heckles, henlike, hoelike, icelike, jetlike, kantele, keckled, keckles, keelage, keeling, keelson, kegeler, keglers, kellies, kelpies, kelters, kennels, kernels, kestrel, kettles, keyhole, keyless, killdee, kleagle, klezmer, kneeled, kneeler, knelled, leakage, leakers, leakier, leglike, likened, netlike, pealike, peglike, shekels, skelped, skelter, sleeked, sleeken, sleeker, sleekit, sleekly, speckle, tealike, toelike, ukelele, ukulele, vakeels, weblike.