keel

EnglishEdit

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Keel

1. Keel (light peach) 2. Skeg (dark purple) 3. Deadwood (spring green) 4. Stern post (forest green) 5. Filling chock (sapphire blue) 6. Filling transoms (pale yellow-green) 7. Wing transom (turquoise) 8. Helm port (orange-red) 9. Counter timbers (violet) 10. Margin (indigo) 11. Horn timber (mint green) 12. Stern timbers (apricot) 13. Side-counter timbers (yellow) 14. Quarter-timbers (sky blue) 15. Fashion timber (fuchsia) 16. Cant frames (royal blue) 17. Square body frames (uncolored)

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English kele, from Old Norse kjǫlr.

PronunciationEdit

(UK) IPA^(key): /kiːl/
Rhymes: -iːl

NounEdit

keel (plural keels)

(nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
(nautical) 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.
(nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
A material similar to chalk or crayon used to mark pavement.
(zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
(botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
A brewer's cooling vat.

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from keel (noun)

TranslationsEdit

beam along the underside of a ship’s hull

Catalan: quilla (ca) f
Chinese:

Mandarin: 龍骨, 龙骨 (zh) (lónggǔ)
Czech: kýl m
Dutch: kiel (nl) f
Finnish: köli (fi)
French: quille (fr) f
German: Kiel (de) m
Italian: carena (it) f, chiglia (it) f
Japanese: 竜骨 (りゅうこつ, ryūkotsu)
Jèrriais: tchelle f
Latin: carina
Maori: takere

Occitan: quilha (oc)
Old English: cēol
Old Saxon: kiol
Portuguese: quilha (pt)
Russian: киль (ru) m (kilʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: кобилица f

Roman: kobilica (sh) f
Slovene: gredelj
Spanish: quilla (es) f
Swedish: köl (sv) c
Turkish: omurga (tr), gemi omurgası
Volapük: kuil, kuil nafa, nafakuil

rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability

Catalan: quilla (ca) f
Dutch: kiel (nl) f
Estonian: kiil (et)
German: Kiel (de) m, Schwert (de) n

Italian: deriva (it) f
Norwegian: kjøl
Spanish: quilla (es) f
Swedish: köl (sv)

a type of flat-bottomed boat

Japanese: キール (kīru), 艀 (ja) (はしけ, hashike)

chalk or crayon to mark pavement

VerbEdit

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

(intransitive, followed by "over") to collapse, to fall

He keeled over after having a stroke.
To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.