English-French translations for keel

quille. - Monsieur le Président, Monsieur le Commissaire, l’Union européenne est comme un navire dont la quille se trouve en mer Méditerranée et le mât en mer Baltique. . Mr President, Commissioner, the European Union is like a boat, whose keel is in the Mediterranean Sea and whose mast is in the Baltic.
bréchet

A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern
In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course
The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge
A brewer's cooling vat
to collapse, to fall
To traverse with a keel; to navigate
Red chalk; ruddle
To mark with ruddle
whose dialect? fake Frenchman voice?--

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