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EnglishEdit

 
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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 1Edit

From Middle English kele, from Old Norse kjǫlr, itself from Proto-Germanic *keluz.

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NounEdit

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. A material similar to chalk or crayon used to mark pavement.
  6. (zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
  7. (botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
  8. A brewer's cooling vat.

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from keel (noun)

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VerbEdit

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.

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Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

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

  1. Eye dialect spelling of kill.

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

keel f (plural kelen, diminutive keeltje n)

  1. throat
    Synonyms: hals
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Etymology 2Edit

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NounEdit

keel n (uncountable)

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

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EstonianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

keel (genitive keele, partitive keelt)

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

DeclensionEdit

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

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Further readingEdit

  • keel in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik
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