Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the timbers or sections which compose the keel of a boat.
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Examples
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She had struck the obstacle with her tough keel-piece, and had been turned aside at right angles.
Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore
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At length the day arrived when, everything being ready, the keel of the vessel was to be laid down -- a task which, the keel-piece being cut out of one log, it took the little band an entire day to accomplish satisfactorily.
The Missing Merchantman Harry Collingwood 1886
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And once, twice, thrice, the club smote against the keel-piece.
Weird Tales from Northern Seas Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870
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The prow was little better than a hog's snout for burrowing under the water, and the planking by the keel-piece was as flat as the bottom of a chest.
Weird Tales from Northern Seas Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870
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From keel-piece up to deck-plank, the roomage of her hold,
Narrative and Legendary Poems: the Vaudois Teacher and Others From Volume I., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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From keel-piece up to deck-plank, the roomage of her hold,
Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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From keel-piece up to deck-plank, the roomage of her hold,
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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If you knock three times to-night on the keel-piece with the club, you shall have such help in building boats that the like of them will not be found in all Nordland. "
Weird Tales from Northern Seas Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870
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