Vocabulary : Kedging to Keelhaul
Kedging : of KedgeKedlook : See Charlock.
Kee : See Kie, Ky, and Kine.
Keech : A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
Keel : To cool; to skim or stir. ;; 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. ;; To traverse with a keel; to navigate. ;; To turn up the keel; to show the bottom. ;; 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
