English-German translations for keel

• Kiel der
  Die Europäische Union ist wie ein Boot, das den Kiel im Mittelmeer und den Mast in der Ostsee hat. Mr President, Commissioner, the European Union is like a boat, whose keel is in the Mediterranean Sea and whose mast is in the Baltic.
• Brustbeinkamm der
• Heckflosse die
• Schiffskiel der
• Schwert das

Definition of keel

• 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?--

Examples

• He keeled over after having a stroke.

Related words

• keelboat
• keelhaul
• keeled
• keelson
• Keelung
• keelie
• Keele
• Keelby
• keelblock