noun
definition
Red chalk; ruddle.
verb
definition
To mark with ruddle.
Examples of keel in a Sentence
This keel is much reduced in the New.
Sweden, and the northern mountains of Finland a continuation of Kjolen (the Keel) which separate Sweden from Norway, while the other great line of upheaval of the old continent, which runs N.W.
It is the heaviest lifting fin keel in the world.
The scales are sometimes rounded behind, but generally rhombic in shape and more or less elongate; they may be quite smooth or provided with a longitudinal ridge or keel in the middle line.
In conformity with these reductions the breastbone of the moas is devoid of any coracoidal facets; there is no trace of a keel, and the number of sternal ribs is reduced to three or even two pairs.
In Broom there is an explosive machanism; the pressure of the insect visitor on the keel of the corolla causes a sudden release of the stamens and the scattering of a cloud of pollen over its body.
When Vancouver visited the islands in 1792, he left sheep and neat cattle, 3 protected by a ten years' taboo, and laid down the keel of a European ship for Kamehameha.
Its leaves are five or six in number, are about a foot in length and an inch in breadth, and have a blunt keel and flat edges.
The outer glumes are acute and glabrous, the flowering glumes lance-shaped, with a comb-like keel at the back, and the outer or lower one prolonged at the apex into a very long bristly awn.
Just to get back on an even keel, you know.
The main keel was different too, a deeper, heavier keel was used on the bilge keeler.
For Med cruising the large diesel is a bonus but the long keel does make handling under power in small harbors a bit nerve-wracking.
On 10 December 1798, the ship's keel was laid.
The keel, or carina sterni, is formed as a direct cartilaginous outgrowth of the body of the sternum, ossifying from a special centre.
The most novel feature, and one the importance of which most ornithologists of the present day are fully prepared to admit, is the separation of the class A y es into two great divisions, which from one of the most obvious distinctions they present were called by its author Carinatae' and Ratitae, 2 according as the sternum possesses a keel (crista in the phraseology of many anatomists) or not.
Two days after this they sighted land to the right hand, and came to a cape, where they found the keel of a ship - perhaps a relic of some earlier, possibly Scandinavian explorer - and which they called therefore Kialames (Keelness; Cape Breton, or some adjacent point?); the long bleak sandy shores of this coast they called the Wonderstrands (on the east coast of Cape Breton Island?).
Keel, Belmullet and Ballycastle are the headquarters of sea and coast fishing districts, and Ballina of a salmon-fishing district, and these fisheries are of some value to the poor inhabitants.
Previously to 793 there lay between Jutland and England a sea which no keel had traversed within the memory of man.
The large canoes in which they formerly made long voyages are no longer built, but various kinds of smaller canoes are made, from the commonest, which is simply a hollowed-out tree cut into form, to the finely shaped one built upon a keel, the joints of the various pieces being nicely fitted, and the whole stitched together with cord made from the husk of coconuts.
Here GeoSwath has the advantage as it is able to collect bathymetry below the keel of a vessel whilst it is alongside.
The Ferriby boats may be considered to be extended dugouts with the dugout base flattened out to a broad keel board.
My deepened keel Eventide, 4 " extra, draws 1 m. I would go for roller reefing genoa every time.
The JST's, Patron, HRH The Duke of York laid the keel in June 1996.
I could use the lead to make half round bars which could be fasted to the cast iron keel.
Most models also have many accessories available from teak decks to camper tops, steel keel guards, tables and trim tabs.
The rudder pintle is mounted on a bronze bracket which extends 6in (152mm) along the keel to give extra strength.
Figure 2 A corroded rudder bearing The potential problem area is the lower bearing, above the keel plank.
With her fin keel, wheel steering and sloop rig she is an easy boat to sail.
The rear keel rollers are mounted directly onto the trailer's rear cross member.
About 60m behind the keel at the stern end, the ship is completely severed in half.
The bottom row of strakes on either side of the keel, are called garboard strakes on either side of the keel, are called garboard strakes.
The bottom row of strakes on either side of the keel, are called garboard strakes.
A brown super soft teddy with a hand tied bow - made by keel toys.
This consists of passing a sail, attached to cords, and charged with oakum, wool, and other materials, under the vessel's keel, in such a manner that the suction of the leak may draw the canvas into the aperture, and thus partially stop the vent.
In the following year .another set of hints - of a kind so different that probably no one then living would have thought it possible that they should ever be brought in correlation with those of Nitzsch - are contained in a memoir on Fishes contributed to the tenth volume of the Annales du Museum d'histoire naturelle of Paris by Etienne Geoffroy St-Hilaire in 1807.1 Here we have it stated as a general truth (p. too) that young birds have the ' sternum formed of five separate pieces - one in the middle, being its keel, and two " annexes " on each side to which the ribs are .articulated - all, however, finally uniting to form the single " breast-bone."
The genus Struthio forms the type of the group of Ratite birds, characterized chiefly by large size, breast-bone without a keel, strong running legs, rudimentary wings and simple feathers (see Bird).
The rear keel rollers are mounted directly onto the trailer 's rear cross member.
My last view of Royal Oak was of her keel, silhouetted against the dark skyline.
If the waterline projection at the stern of the Thera ships is not a projecting keel or ram what is it?
A boat with a keel that sits low in the water can smoothly sail through some bodies of water but will quickly run aground in others.
Of course, it's just a theory, but if you want to put your cat on an even keel, consider having her spayed.
All of this activity adds up to a lot of mental stimulation for our feline friends- something every cat needs to remain on an even keel.
The falls are deep violet-purple, with a beardless bright yellow keel, from which are purplish branchings, whilst the standards are pale self-lilac with creamy anthers.
In this case, it is nice to see where you're at in the song in case you're ready to keel over.
In these situations, the body needs a sudden jolt of sugar to get back on the right keel, meaning the sugar poses no danger, hence no insulin response and no accompanying crash an hour later.
A high fiber snack will take longer to digest and keep your blood sugar levels on an even keel to prevent overeating later.
It is absent in the Ratitae, which from this feature have received their name, but considerable traces of a cartilaginous keel occur in the embryo of the ostrich, showing undeniably that the absence of a keel in the recent bird is not a primitive, fundamental feature.
The keel has been lost, and is being lost, at various epochs and by various groups of birds.
Often it reaches the keel of the sternum, with subsequent syndesmosis or even synostosis, e.g.
This arises mostly from the angle formed by the keel with the body of the sternum, passes by a strong tendon through the foramen triosseum, and is inserted upon the upper tubercle of the humeral crest, which it rotates and abducts.