keel
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7.4
- noun
- /kiːl/
- Specialized
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- The sailor inspected the keel to ensure it was sturdy and free from damage.
- foot-long keel
- ship's keel
So, you know, now things are back on on an even keel after all this tragedy.
- So, you know, now things are back on on an even keel after all this tragedy.
- And what else that's about that that kind of keeps things on an even keel most of the time.
- So both sides, you can see, have made an effort to keep the relationship on an even keel.
- I gifted them to them and paid the hefty tax bills between me and and Paul and we got it back onto an even keel.
- You know, that's what keeps the sail from it's the keel that the, the pressure again.
- And you can fail. Every SEAL knows that under the keel at that darkest moment of the mission
- Or Russia and China went to them and said, hey, let's play it even keel.
- OK, Argo novice is the ship and it's just, it's like Karina is the, is the, is the keel?
- And so there's a a more even keel in the moment I'm present and I experience.
- No, I mean it's just it's that even keel all the way through pre op on the OP post op it's just even keel.
Examples
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The garboard plank was wrenching away from the keel, and the sea was overwhelming the pumps.
Fiction book (2000) -
So you need to go through the deck to get to the keel.
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The gunwale and keel are definitely safe.
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Meanwhile, in Kobe, Japan, we have laid the keel for a new, much larger vessel.
Fiction book (1991) -
Another distinctive feature dating the ship is the single limber hole above the keel.
Academic text (2010) -
By the end of January, workers had laid keels on all six of the slipways.
Academic text (2009) -
"I was there when they laid the keel of the Nereus," he snapped, anger dancing in his hazel eyes.
Fiction book (1999) -
So heavily laden that it's keel scrapes a few sandbars, the ship floats downstream to the sea.
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A strong keel is essential for keeping the ship stable in rough waters.
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The ship's keel provides the necessary support for its entire structure.
Synonyms
A metal piece under a boat that keeps it from moving sideways
A fin under a sailboat that you raise or lower to stop the boat sliding sideways
A long narrow fin on a ship's hull that reduces rolling
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A fin under a sailboat that you raise or lower to stop the boat sliding sideways
How Thick
Surface Forms
Etymology
Keel comes from an old English word cēol meaning 'small ship' or the bottom part of a boat. Think of a long beam under the hull that keeps the ship steady and gives it strength.