(n.) 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.
(n.) Fig.: The whole ship.
(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.
(n.) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.
(n.) A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface.
(v. i.) To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
(v. i.) To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2007, she put the Oscars back on an even keel after poor reviews for the satirist Jon Stewart in 2006.
(2) As they were leaving, he told the court, D’Souza took charge of Keeling and asked Sagar to leave the pair alone.
(3) But before you keel over in shock she's back on form arguing that the government use the money spent on overseas aid to boost investment in prisons.
(4) In that time, MacKeown has had to endure tastleless coverage of her daughter’s drug use and sex life, and close scrutiny of her own lifestyle, and of her decision to allow Keeling to travel alone to Anjuna while the family toured a neighbouring state.
(5) Because we know how even-keeled and slow-to-anger people are during those types of situations.
(6) This bar is only a couple of miles from where the body of British teenager Scarlett Keeling was found five years ago.
(7) Another ship, called TransSpar and designed by Canada's Extreme Ocean Innovation , has a huge, deep keel for stability, giving it the shape of a seahorse, while a third is an adaptation of a Norwegian Navy minesweeping hovercraft .
(8) A silastic keel is secured between the vocal cords at the anterior commissure by means of a loop of nylon passing externally through the crico-thyroid and crico-hyoid membranes.
(9) This instrument will allow endoscopic insertion of sutures for lateralization of a paralyzed vocal cord or for fixation of endoscopically inserted stents or keels in laryngotracheal stenosis.
(10) In a rare case of simultaneous glottic and supraglottic webbing a tantalum keel, as described by McNaught, and a silcone elastomer keel, as described by Montgomery, were placed simultaneously via laryngofissure.
(11) Willetts has appointed Dame Janet Finch, a former vice-chancellor of Keele University, to sit down with academics and publishers to work out how an open-access scheme for publicly-funded research might function in the UK.
(12) Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Keeling was found bruised and half-dressed in the waters of popular Anjuna beach in February 2008.
(13) Professor Peter Styles, professor of applied and environmental geophysics at Keele University, said the find could supply the UK for decades.
(14) In chickens he found NCD (pseudo-fowlpest) and in ducklings a mortal disease which the author then called 'keeling disease' but which he many years later, recognized as virus hepatitis.
(15) Analysis of the 12-wk pooled data from both cage and floor groups indicated the occurrence of isometric growth of the shank and breast in G1 and of the breast only in G2 and allometric growth of the thigh and keel in both genotypes.
(16) An endoscopic technique using a Teflon keel which has been successful in properly selected cases is presented.
(17) Pain threshold was measured in 106 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, 50 with ankylosing spondylitis, and 50 normal controls using Keele's algometer.
(18) I did not need O-levels to lead, to have judgment, to make decisions and to be decided.” Nevertheless, in later life he would serve several universities, as pro-chancellor of Keele, then chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan and first chancellor of Chester.
(19) I kept falling asleep during morning session, keeling over into the person next to me.
(20) Nonarticulated components, such as the solid-ankle cushion heel foot, have various keel designs; energy-storing variants provide springiness for walking and running.
Skeg
Definition:
(n.) A sort of wild plum.
(n.) A kind of oats.
(n.) The after part of the keel of a vessel, to which the rudder is attached.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the 1980s, the British government tried to claim that the beaches of Brighton, Blackpool, Skegness and many other resorts weren’t used for bathing, to avoid dealing with the sewage, condoms and tampons that polluted them.
(2) Able to live on his savings from the restaurant, he took up his place; Dusty went to Skegness to work as a waitress.
(3) Nuttall will stand for Boston and Skegness in the June election, after losing the Stoke-on-Trent Central byelection in February.
(4) Mark Simmonds, conservative MP for Boston and Skegness, has resigned, citing the intolerable pressure of trying to live in London on an MP’s expenses.
(5) In the 2013 local elections, this county saw Ukip's best single result , when 16 new Ukip county councillors were elected, and the party became the official opposition; among the parliamentary seats that are reckoned to be vulnerable to a Ukip surge are Labour-held Great Grimsby, and Boston and Skegness, currently represented by the Tories.
(6) He told her: I was at the end of Scarbrough Esplanade, Skegness, which is beside the pier.
(7) Skegness Tidal Surge A surge results in a particularly high tide in Skegness on the evening of Thursday 5 December 2013.
(8) Ukip under the current leadership, without positive radical policies, is finished as an electoral force.” The party lost 10 seats in Lincolnshire, where Nuttall has decided to run in the general election in the Boston and Skegness seat .
(9) Don't let the name put you off: Skegness (nicknamed Skeggy) has a wonderful beach, wide and largely empty, especially to the south towards Gibraltar Point.
(10) Moby doesn’t float my boat Facebook Twitter Pinterest Three dead whales wash up on Skegness beach – video After the heartbreak of the recent stranded whales , it’s lovely to see such a happy creature on the shores of Loch Nevis.
(11) Three dead sperm whales wash up on Skegness beach Read more These young males head north, enter the North Sea between Scotland and Norway, and unfortunately find this shallow sea a natural trap – difficult to navigate and short of food.
(12) And in the last chance saloon, Ukip leader Paul Nuttall said he would stand in the heavily Brexit-supporting constituency of Boston and Skegness as support for his party drops by the week, with many voters defecting to the Tories.
(13) Robert Pert, of Skegness, Lincolnshire, is among those hit by this loophole.
(14) After a lunch of strong tea and fish and chips in Mablethorpe, where children can jump on a small fleet of donkeys (and we gambled a plastic cupload of pennies in the amusement arcade), we dined out at the Windmill restaurant in Burgh-Le-Marsh, a few miles inland from Skegness.
(15) The Ministry of Defence said about 100 soldiers from the Catterick army base in Yorkshire had been deployed to Skegness on the Lincolnshire coast, where about 3,000 residents were urged to leave their homes or move upstairs.
(16) Tidy lines of classic blue-and-white or pastel pink beach huts called Calypso and Aquarius sit on sea defences at Chapel Point, a few miles from Skegness.
(17) Well, for every teacher heading to Saudi Arabia, there’s a classroom in Skegness missing one.
(18) On a grim and blustery morning in the town some people know as "Skeg", conversations with locals suggest a town much more weary and fatalistic than Great Yarmouth, although people have a similar litany of complaints: awful local roads, shut-down shops, an economy that effectively dies for half the year.
(19) The first is the direct threat of a Ukip victory in a handful of mostly Conservative seats, such as South Thanet, Boston and Skegness, Castle Point, and Thurrock.
(20) After being unfrocked, Davidson eked out a living as an entertainer on the seafront at Skegness - where, in 1937, he was mauled to death by a lion.