keel

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English kele, from Old Norse kjǫlr.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kiːl/
• 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. (nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
4. A material similar to chalk or crayon used to mark pavement.
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

Translations

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 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

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

• Greek: καταρρέω (el) (katarréo), σωριάζομαι (soriázomai)

Anagrams

• leek

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keːl/

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• Rhymes: -eːl

Etymology 1

Noun

keel f (plural kelen, diminutive keeltje n)

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

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *keeli.

Noun

keel (genitive keele, partitive keelt)

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

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.