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verb
Keel  v. t. & v. i.  To cool; to skim or stir. (Obs.) "While greasy Joan doth keel the pot."


Keel  v. i.  (past & past part. keeled; pres. part. keeling)  
1.
To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
2.
To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
To keel over, to upset; to capsize. (Colloq.)


adjective
Keeled  adj.  
1.
(Bot.) Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as, a keeled leaf.
2.
(Zool.) Having a median ridge; carinate; as, a keeled scale.





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"Keeled" Quotes from Famous Books



... all pulled through except Filly's colt. He keeled over one morning, poor fellow! and was dragged out and buried under the oaks in the high pasture. But for some reason, I didn't pick up as quick as the others. The cough held on, and I was pestered for breath, ...
— Miss Elliot's Girls • Mrs Mary Spring Corning
... just going down into the cabin, and Bunny and Sue were on deck, looking at the distant green trees, when there was a sudden shock, a bump, and the boat keeled far over to one side. It seemed as if the Fairy had struck ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove • Laura Lee Hope
... and leave white scars; billows may beat and surges may roll, and water-spouts and tornadoes may make the upper sea boil with anguish and sorrow and grief, but deep in the heart there is calm. There the delicate graces of the Spirit thrive and luxuriate. Great, soulless, iron-keeled, worldly institutions and sharp-prowed cutters may ride over your sensibilities, but ...
— The Heart-Cry of Jesus • Byron J. Rees
... Splinters sprang up from the wood-block floor. Then, abruptly, one of the trucks vanished in a monstrous, actinic flash of blue-white flame and a roar so horrible that it was not sound but pure concussion. The other truck keeled over and crashed from the blast, but did not explode. Men jumped from it. There must have been screamed orders, but Joe could hear nothing at all. He only saw men waving their arms, and others seized things from ...
— Space Platform • Murray Leinster
... for scarcely two minutes could have elapsed when with a rush that nearly engulfed them the boat keeled up on end and sank ...
— Curlie Carson Listens In • Roy J. Snell


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