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• We should all go inside before somebody keels over from the heat.From the entry keel over
• They took it for granted that the rigid soleplate was as true as the keel beneath it.2022, Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles. From the entry soleplate
• But the soleplate was not rigid and the keel was not true.2022, Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles. From the entry soleplate
• Keeling Schedules are resource intensive to produce, which is perhaps why there are no more recent examples.2020, Andrew Makower, Liam Laurence Smyth, “Law Reform Bills in the Parliament of the United Kingdom”, in European Journal of Law Reform…. From the entry Keeling schedule
• Ovary slightly laterally compressed, quadrangular (angles keeled), 2-celled g cells undivided, equal; ovules 2-seriate.2014, William T. Thiselton-Dyer, Flora Capensis - Volume 4: Part 2 - Hydrophyllaceae to Pedalineae, Cambridge University Press, page 457. From the entry posticously
• There was sand in every crook and nanny, from truck to keel.2009, Ted Macey, Merry Swan, Jack the Lad RN, page 17. From the entry crook and nanny
• On inspection it was found that the vessel's keel had a hog of nearly fourteen inches.2007, Charles E. Brodine, Michael J. Crawford, Christine F. Hughes, Interpreting Old Ironsides: An Illustrated Guide to USS Constitution…. From the entry hog
• She squatted instead of keeling, her plump vulva gaping obscenely above the floor.2006, K. Sean Harris, Erotic Jamaican Tales, Book Fetish, p. 2. From the entry pre-cum
• But he ran to keep himself on keel, to wind himself into work the next morning.1979, Bernard Malamud, chapter 8, in Dubin’s Lives. From the entry on keel
• "You were shaking hands with Stillson when you keeled over," Lancte said.1979, Stephen King, The Dead Zone, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 329. From the entry goodbuddy
• Keel — who until last year was as skeptical a newshound as I have known.1967, Ivan Terence Sanderson, Uninvited Visitors. From the entry firsthand
• Bond estimated there would be about twenty feet of water below her keel.1954, Ian Fleming, “Beau Desert”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 197. From the entry norther
• I have sailed in vessels having a 2-ft. hog in the keel.1920, The Records of the Proceedings and the Printed Papers, Parliamentary paper. From the entry hog
• When she was in stretching distance of the mattress, she keeled over rigidly like a caber that had been mistossed.2012, Francesca Clementis, Big Girls Don't Cry. From the entry mistoss
• Keep an even keel; the men be spleened and the younger ones be afraid but they'll follow yer lead.2011, Jan Tucker Mulligan, Smuggler's Legacy, page 54. From the entry spleened
• It augered into the water and vanishedunder the surface only to float up again, its keel pointing skyward.2010, Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul, The Silent Sea. From the entry auger
• Shiver me sails an' rot me timbers, fry me barnacles, scrape me keel, an' all that nautical jimjam.2004, Brian Jacques, Loamhedge: A Novel of Redwall, →ISBN. From the entry jimjam
• The short wing petals and abruptly angled keel petals are diagnostic features which distinguish the sweetvetches in flower.1990, Stanley L. Welsh, David B. Williams, Grand Views of Canyon Country: A Driving Guide, page 30. From the entry sweetvetch
• She keeled the pot and swept away the dust.1975, Scholia Satyrica, page 29. From the entry snottery
• It does take some experience with balance and acceleration to keep a snowmobile on keel in the deep woods.1971 January 10, Seth S. King, “What Has Two Skis, Tank Treads”, in The New York Times. From the entry on keel
• "I war jest a-countin' ob dem jailbirds, an' had 'rived at 'leven w'en a 'streperous root she keeled me ober.1911, Quincy Allen, The Outdoor Chums, Chapter 6. From the entry streperous
• The ram was marked wi' keel at the reet o' the tail an' the yowes upon their hips.1902, James Thomson, Recollections of a Speyside parish. From the entry yowe
• But then things take a turn, the men starting to keel over as Walder seems to admonish them for leaving certain threads hanging.2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and Dragons Come Home to Roost on Game of Thrones (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the…. From the entry keel over
• Wall Street was on a fairly even keel Tuesday morning but the same could not be said for Best Buy as the company's stock plummeted.2010 December 14, Steve Schaefer, “Stocks Stable, Best Buy Battered”, in forbes.com, retrieved 14 Dec 2013. From the entry even keel
• It is not moved by tragedy or triumph, but maintains an even keel in the face of all new sensory data and information.2007, Chris Rojek, “Georg Simmel”, in Tim Edwards, editor, Cultural Theory, London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry blasé
• The keel of the angular does have the deep form characteristic of the group, but it is not reflected laterally as occurs in other sphenacodontians.2005, Thomas Stainforth Kemp, The Origin and Evolution of Mammals, page 26. From the entry sphenacodontian
• He outlined a two-phase strategy, aimed first at “immediate disruption and prevention of terrorism” and followed by longer-term efforts to put terrorists “off keel.”2002 January 31, Bob Woodward, Dan Balz, “At Camp David, Advise and Dissent”, in The Washington Post. From the entry off keel
• The lower half of a duplex apartment on a shabby Montreal street, dark as limbo, jerry-built fifty years ago and going off keel ever since.1960, Brian Moore, chapter 1, in The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 4. From the entry off keel
• The platycoelous centra are not keeled ventrally and are slightly dorsoventrally compressed at mid-length, so that in transverse section the centrum has a more oval outline.2015 September 10, “Anatomy of the Enigmatic Reptile Elachistosuchus huenei Janensch, 1949 (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Upper Triassic of…. From the entry platycoelous
• Abbreviations: k, ventral keel; ns, neural spine; pre, prezygapophysis; sd, sacrodorsal vertebra; sdr, sacrodorsal rib; sr, sacral ribs; sy, sacral yoke; s5, sacral vertebra 5; tp, transverse process.2015 December 17, “A New Sail-Backed Styracosternan (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Morella, Spain”, in PLOS ONE…. From the entry sacrodorsal
• Scales are weakly differentiated, with head scales flat and smooth, nuchals small and smooth, dorsal scales small and keeled, and tail scales larger ventrally than laterally, without wings.2004, Hans-Georg Horn, “6.19: Varanus salvadorii”, in Eric R. Pianka, Dennis R. King, Ruth Allen King, editors, Varanoid Lizards of the…. From the entry nuchal
• Probably the simplest way to go is a keel cooler, yet even here you'll need the second pump system if you want to watercool the exhaust.1991, George Buehler, Buehler's Backyard Boatbuilding, →ISBN. From the entry watercool
• You have a choice of building a water-line model as pictured at the top of the page or a keel model as detailed in the plans.1952 December, Wayne C. Leckey, “Thirty-six in. model of the SS United States”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 98, number 6, page 182. From the entry water-line model
• This keel on the first half of the last whorl consists of oblique, protractive strong short ridges, which on the last half disappear and give place to rough corrugations.1943, United States National Museum, Bulletin - Issues 180-181, page 111. From the entry protractive
• The disease . . . plays havoc with mood, personality, perception and thought, and can require constant adjustments by friends and relatives just to keep life on an even keel.2007 December 26, Denise Grady, “Coping With Alzheimer’s: Disease Brings Drastic Changes to Patients, and Stress to Family Members”, in…. From the entry even keel
• It ends in a more or less acute tip, or acumen, and may have a lateral spine on each side or bear a longitudinal keel (carina) on the dorsal surface.c. 1918, University of California, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection, Volume 1586, page 692. From the entry acumen

Meaning of keel

1. noun A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
2. noun A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
3. noun In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.

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How do you use keel in a sentence?

Keel is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He keeled over after having a stroke.”

What is a short sentence with keel?

“He keeled over after having a stroke.”

What does keel mean?

Keel means a large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.