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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



... this property, and at length, after long straining of the eyes, its green disk was discovered far down the river, gently floating seaward with many twigs and leaves from the mountains that evening, and so perfectly balanced that it had not keeled at all, and no water had run in at the tap which had been taken out to ...
— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau
... the metamorphosed leaf, in the aril of which the flower is produced. In the common sorts of barley it bears a long awn, giving thereby its typical aspect to the [679] whole spike. The axillary flower is protected on the opposite side by a two-keeled inner palet. Each flower exhibits three stamens and an ovary. In the six-rowed barley all the three flowers of a triple spikelet are fertile, and each of them has a long awn on the top of the outer palet. But in the two-rowed ...
— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries
... a wild shout; Walkirk dashed out of his bunk; there was a call from above; then I felt a shock, and our boat keeled over on her starboard side. In a moment, however, she receded from the other vessel, and righted herself. I do not know that Walkirk had ever read in a book what he ought to do in such an emergency, but he seized a boat hook and pushed our boat ...
— The House of Martha • Frank R. Stockton
... got burnt. She was there all the afternoon and they took her to the hospital in the city on the night train and she stayed there until she was well, but she never came back here until just now. Her mother went with her to take care of her and before Evelina came out of the hospital, her mother keeled over and died. Sarah Grey always had a weak heart and a weak head to match it. If she hadn't have had, she'd have brought ...
— A Spinner in the Sun • Myrtle Reed
... way to the Kimball home, Cora driving slowly and with careful regard for Jack's weakness, the sufferer told how he had "keeled over" in a faint, while playing the last half of a hard game, and how the team physician had insisted on his being ...
— The Motor Girls on Waters Blue - Or The Strange Cruise of The Tartar • Margaret Penrose


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