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Keelson   /kˈɛlsən/   Listen
Keelson

noun
1.
A longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it.





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"Keelson" Quotes from Famous Books



... their brains just the same, if they haven't been dead too long. However, when I tried to read theirs, I found only blanks—their brains had been destroyed so that nobody could read them. That did look funny, so I ransacked the ship from truck to keelson, and finally found another body, wearing an air-helmet, in a sort of closet off the control room. I ...
— Skylark Three • Edward Elmer Smith
... vessel grew, With timbers fashioned strong and true, Sternson and keelson and sternson-knee, Till, framed with perfect symmetry, A skeleton ship rose up to view! And around the bows and along the side The heavy hammers and mallets plied, Till after many a week, at length, Wonderful for form and strength, Sublime ...
— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck


Words linked to "Keelson" :   hull, beam


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