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/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • 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)

Translations

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

Translations

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

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /keːl/, [keːɫ]
  • Audio(file)
  • 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

Etymology 2

Noun

keel n (uncountable)

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

Anagrams

Estonian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kˈeːl/

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

Further reading
  • keel in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik

Ingrian

Noun

keel

  1. tongue
  2. language
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.