keel

See also: Keel

English

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English kele, from Old Norse kjǫlr, itself from Proto-Germanic *keluz, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gewlos. Distantly related to kile.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kiːl/

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• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

keel (plural keels)

1. (nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
2. (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.
3. (aeronautics) In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.
4. (nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
5. (zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
6. (botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
7. A brewer's cooling vat.

Derived terms

Terms derived from keel (noun)

• even keel
• keelhaul

• keel over
• off keel

• on keel

Translations

beam along the underside of a ship’s hull

• Bulgarian: кил m (kil)
• Catalan: quilla (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 龍骨 (zh), 龙骨 (zh) (lónggǔ)

• Czech: kýl m
• Danish: køl (da) c
• Dutch: kiel (nl) f
• Finnish: köli (fi)
• French: quille (fr) f
• Galician: quilla (gl) f
• Georgian: კილი (ḳili), გემის ხერხემალი (gemis xerxemali)
• German: Kiel (de) m
• Hebrew: שדרית‎ (he) f (shidrít)
• Italian: carena (it) f, chiglia (it) f
• Japanese: 竜骨 (りゅうこつ, ryūkotsu)
• Korean: 용골 (yonggol)
• Latin: carīna
• Low German:

  German Low German: kyl m

• Maori: takere
• Norman: tchelle f
• 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
• Thai: กระดูกงู (th) (grà-dùuk-nguu)
• Turkish: omurga (tr), gemi omurgası
• Volapük: kuil, kuil nafa, nafakuil
• Welsh: cêl (cy) m

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

• Bulgarian: кил m (kil)
• Catalan: quilla (ca) f
• Dutch: kiel (nl) f
• Estonian: kiil (et)
• Finnish: köli (fi)
• German: Kiel (de) m, Schwert (de) n
• Hebrew: שדרית‎ (he) f (shidrít)

• Italian: deriva (it) f
• Norwegian: kjøl
• Russian: киль (ru) m (kilʹ)
• Spanish: quilla (es) f
• Swedish: köl (sv)

a type of flat-bottomed boat

• Bulgarian: шлеп (bg) m (šlep)
• Japanese: キール (kīru), 艀 (ja) (はしけ, hashike)

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.

2. To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
3. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

Derived terms

• keel over

Translations

collapse, fall

• Bulgarian: преобръщам се (preobrǎštam se)
• Greek: καταρρέω (el) (katarréo), σωριάζομαι (soriázomai)

Etymology 2

Probably Gaelic cil, ruddle.

Noun

keel

1. (Scotland) Red chalk; ruddle.

Verb

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

1. (Scotland, transitive) To mark with ruddle.

Etymology 3

Verb

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

1. Eye dialect spelling of kill.

Anagrams

• Kele, Leek, elke, leek, lekë

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch keel, from Middle Dutch kēle, from Old Dutch kela, from Proto-Germanic *kelǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɪə̯l/

Noun

keel (plural kele)

1. throat

Derived terms

• keelgat
• keelseer

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keːl/, [keːɫ]

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• Hyphenation: keel
• Rhymes: -eːl

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch kēle, from Old Dutch kela, from Proto-Germanic *kelǭ.

Noun

keel f (plural kelen, diminutive keeltje n)

1. throat

   Synonym: hals

Derived terms

• baard in de keel
• keelgat
• keelpijn

Descendants

• Afrikaans: keel

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

keel n (uncountable)

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

Anagrams

• leek, leke

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Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *keeli. Cognate with Finnish kieli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeːl/

Noun

keel (genitive keele, partitive keelt)

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

Declension

Inflection of keel (ÕS type 13/suur, length gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	keel	keeled
accusative	keele	keeled
genitive	keele	keelte
partitive	keelt	keeli
illative	keelde keelesse	keeltesse keelisse
inessive	keeles	keeltes keelis
elative	keelest	keeltest keelist
allative	keelele	keeltele keelile
adessive	keelel	keeltel keelil
ablative	keelelt	keeltelt keelilt
translative	keeleks	keelteks keeliks
terminative	keeleni	keelteni
essive	keelena	keeltena
abessive	keeleta	keelteta
comitative	keelega	keeltega

Derived terms

• emakeel
• kõnekeel
• keeleluu
• keeleteadus
• keelkond
• röövlikeel

Further reading

• keel in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik

Noun

keel

1. adessive singular of kee

Noun

keel

1. adessive singular of kesi

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Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *keeli, from Proto-Uralic *käle. Cognates with Finnish kieli and Estonian keel.

Noun

keel (genitive keelen, partitive keelt)

1. tongue
2. language