Dictionary Entry
keel
keel is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive/intransitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cool; to skim or stir. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 13 senses
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- 1transitive/intransitive verb
To cool; to skim or stir.
- 2noun
A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
- 3noun
A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson.
- 4noun
Fig.: The whole ship.
- 5noun
A barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.
- 6noun
The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.
- 7noun
A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface.
- 8intransitive verb
To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
- 9intransitive verb
To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
- 10noun
one of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability
- 11noun
the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly
- 12noun
a projection or ridge that suggests a keel
- 13verb
walk as if unable to control one's movements
"The drunken man staggered into the room"
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