English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of keel

keel

/verb/ उलटना; उलट जाना; उथलना-पुथलना;
/adjective/उलटा हुआ; नौतल; तली; पोत; निधरण; तख्ती;

Synonym keel over; capsize; overturn; Bottom; vessel; tablet;

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English Dictionary:

1. Keel

[n.]

- A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
- 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.
- Fig.: The whole ship.
- A barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.
- The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.
- A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface.

2. Keel

[v. i.]

- To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
- To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

3. Keel

[v. t. & i.]

- To cool; to skim or stir.