keel

      English

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      Etymology

      From Middle English kele, from Old Norse kjǫlr.

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      Noun

      keel (plural keels)

      1. a large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern
      2. sometimes, a rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability
      3. a type of flat-bottomed boat
      4. something similar to chalk or crayon used to mark pavement

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      Translations

      beam along the underside of a ship’s hull
      rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability
      a type of flat-bottomed boat
      chalk or crayon to mark pavement

      Verb

      keel (third-person singular simple present keels, present participle keeling, simple past and past participle keeled)

      1. (intransitive, followed by "over") to collapse, to fall
        He keeled over after having a stroke.

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      Dutch

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      Etymology 1

      Noun

      keel f (plural kelen, diminutive keeltje)

      1. (anatomy) throat
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      Noun

      keel n (uncountable)

      1. (heraldry) gules, the blazoning term for the color red

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      Estonian

      Noun

      keel (genitive keele, partitive keelt)

      1. language
      2. tongue
      3. string of musical instrument

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      This Estonian noun needs an inflection-table template.
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      Last modified on 19 June 2013, at 14:02