kelson

And the kelson is the piece of wood that connects the rudder to the frame of the boat.

Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself' 2010

Another place he says, the kelson of creation is love.

Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself' 2010

Philopator was properly built, with a kelson, and bilges, and a flat-bottomed hull.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Philopator was properly built, with a kelson, and bilges, and a flat-bottomed hull.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Is not the main-truck higher than the kelson is low?

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

But in either case, the needle never again, of itself, recovers the original virtue thus marred or lost; and if the binnacle compasses be affected, the same fate reaches all the others that may be in the ship; even were the lowermost one inserted into the kelson.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Her hold contained sixteen twenty-four carronades, while her magazine was stocked with abundance of ammunition, and her kelson lined, fore and aft, with round shot and grape.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

This, Mr Shrapnel, our gunner, trained right across the slaver's bows, and at the word of command, ` Fire! 'let drive with a bang that shook the steamer right down to her kelson and seemed to stop her way for the moment, sending her back, as it were, with the recoil.

The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace

The mast did not go within four feet of the bottom -- the ship having no kelson -- but, to use the technical term, was "toggled" to two large pieces of wood which answered as partners.

Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War James Allan

But before his eyes were closed, Mr. Fox came to inform him that the carpenter had found the water above the kelson, and that the ship had certainly sprung a leak; he immediately rose and took the carpenter down to the hold along with him, when, to his infinite surprise, he heard the water roaring in dreadfully.

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. Anonymous