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Keelvat :: Keelvat (n.) See Keelfat.

Keelhaul :: Keelhaul (v. i.) To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies..

Keelage :: Keelage (n.) The right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port; also, the duty or toll..

Keel :: Keel (n.) A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.

Cutter :: Cutter (n.) A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead..

Keeling :: Keeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kee.

Keel :: Keel (n.) A barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt..

Keeled :: Keeled (imp. & p. p.) of Kee.

Carinated :: Carinated (a.) Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird)..

Keelfat :: Keelfat (n.) A cooler; a vat for cooling wort, etc..

Sternsman :: Sternpost (n.) A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel..

Keel :: Keel (n.) A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface.

Keel :: Keel (v. i.) To traverse with a keel; to navigate.

Outboard :: Outboard (a. & adv.) Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; in a direction from the hull or from the keel; -- opposed to inboard; as, outboard rigging; swing the davits outboard..

Binding :: Binding (pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel..

Multicarinate :: Multicarinate (a.) Many-keeled.

Timber :: Timber (n.) A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united..

Steeve :: Steeve (v. i.) To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; -- said of the bowsprit, etc..

Skeg :: Skeg (n.) The after part of the keel of a vessel, to which the rudder is attached..

Keelivine :: Keelivine (n.) A pencil of black or red lead; -- called also keelyvine pen.

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