keel

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English kele, from Old Norse kjǫlr.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kiːl/, X-SAMPA: /ki:l/
• Rhymes: -iːl

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

Derived terms

• keelhaul
• keel over

Translations

beam along the underside of a ship’s hull

• Catalan: quilla (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 龍骨 (cmn), 龙骨 (cmn) (lónggǔ)

• Czech: kýl (cs) 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 (ja) (りゅうこつ, ryūkotsu)
• Jèrriais: tchelle f
• Latin: carina (la)
• Maori: takere (mi)

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

  Cyrillic: кобилица (sh) f

  Roman: kobilica (sh) f

• Slovene: gredelj (sl)
• Spanish: quilla (es) f
• Swedish: köl (sv) c
• Turkish: omurga (tr), gemi omurgası (tr)
• Volapük: kuil (vo), kuil nafa (vo), nafakuil (vo)

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

• Catalan: quilla (ca) f
• Dutch: kiel (nl) f
• Estonian: kiil (et)

• Italian: deriva (it) f
• Norwegian: kjøl (no)
• Swedish: köl (sv)

a type of flat-bottomed boat

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

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.

Derived terms

• keel over

Anagrams

• leek

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːl
• IPA: /keːl/

Etymology 1

Noun

keel f (plural kelen, diminutive keeltje)

1. (anatomy) throat

Synonyms

• hals

Derived terms

• keelgat
• keelpijn

Etymology 2

Noun

keel n (uncountable)

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

Anagrams

• leek, leke

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Estonian

Noun

keel (genitive keele, partitive keelt)

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

Declension

This Estonian noun needs an inflection-table template.