keel-piece

She had struck the obstacle with her tough keel-piece, and had been turned aside at right angles.

Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore

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

And once, twice, thrice, the club smote against the keel-piece.

Weird Tales from Northern Seas Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870

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

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

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

From keel-piece up to deck-plank, the roomage of her hold,

The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

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