SLAB KEEL

  

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SLAB KEEL

Specialty Definition: SLAB KEEL

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Food & Agriculture

A wooden keel composed of elm plank or thick stuff fastened lightly under the main keel to protect it in case of grounding. If the ship should strike the ground the false keel is designed to give away, thus saving the main keel. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SLAB KEEL

Language Translations for "SLAB KEEL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

stråkøl (false keel, grounding keel, keel facing bar, rubbing bar, shoe of a keel). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

slijtkiel (false keel, grounding keel, keel facing bar, rubbing bar, shoe of a keel), loze kiel (cutwater, false keel, grounding keel, keel facing bar, rubbing bar, shoe of a keel). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

irtoköli (false keel, grounding keel, keel facing bar, rubbing bar, shoe of a keel). (various references)

   

French

  

fausse quille. (various references)

   

German

  

Schutzkiel (false keel, grounding keel, keel facing bar, rubbing bar, shoe of a keel), Loskiel (cutwater, false keel, grounding keel, keel facing bar, rubbing bar, shoe of a keel). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ψευδοτρόπιδα (false keel, grounding keel, keel facing bar, rubbing bar, shoe of a keel). (various references)

   

Italian

  

falsa chiglia (false keel, grounding keel, keel facing bar, rubbing bar, shoe of a keel), controchiglia (false keel, grounding keel, keel facing bar, rubbing bar, shoe of a keel). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abslay eelkay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sobressano inferior (false keel, grounding keel, keel facing bar, rubbing bar, shoe of a keel), quilha falsa (false keel, grounding keel, keel facing bar, rubbing bar, shoe of a keel). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

zapata (block, brake shoe, button, shoe), falsa quilla (false keel, grounding keel, keel facing bar, rubbing bar, shoe of a keel). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SLAB KEEL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-k-l-l-s"

-2 letters: abeles, allees, belles, bleaks, labels.

-3 letters: abele, ables, akees, allee, bakes, bales, balks, balls, beaks, belle, bells, blase, bleak, easel, kales, keels, label, lakes, leaks, lease, leeks, sable, selle, slake, sleek.

-4 letters: able, akee, albs, alee, ales, alls, bake, bale, balk, ball, bals, base, bask, beak, bees, bell, bels, blae, ease, eels, ekes.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-k-l-l-s"
 

+2 letters: klebsiella.

 

+3 letters: dislikeable, klebsiellas, likableness.

 

+5 letters: likablenesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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