keelie.html - See: ON AN EVEN KEEL.

keelie.html - {v.} 1. To turn upside down; tip over; overturn. - Usually refers to a boat. * /The strong wind made the sailboat keel over and the passengers fell into the water./ 2. {informal} To fall over in a faint; taint. * /It was so hot during the assembly program that two girls who were standing on the stage keeled over./ * /When the principal told the girl her father died, she keeled right over./

keelie.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 the lengthwise timber or steel structure along the base of a ship, airship, or some aircraft, on which the framework of the whole is built up.
2 poet. a ship.
3 a ridge along the breastbone of many birds; a carina.
4 Bot. a prow-shaped pair of petals in a corolla etc.

--v.

1 (often foll. by over) a intr. turn over or fall down. b tr. cause to do this.
2 tr. & intr. turn keel upwards.

keelless adj. [ME kele f. ON kjælr f. Gmc]

keelie.html - n.
Brit. hist.
1 a flat-bottomed vessel, esp. of the kind formerly used on the River Tyne etc. for loading coal-ships.
2 an amount carried by such a vessel. [ME kele f. MLG kel, MDu. kiel ship, boat, f. Gmc]

keelie.html - v.tr.
1 drag (a person) through the water under the keel of a ship as a punishment.
2 scold or rebuke severely.

keelie.html - n.
(also kelson) a line of timber fastening a ship's floor-timbers to its keel. [ME kelswayn, perh. f. LG kielswin f. kiel KEEL(1) + (prob.) swin SWINE used as the name of a timber]