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To cool; to akin or stir [Obs.] While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. Shak.

The right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port; also, the duty or toll. Bouvier. Wharton.

Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as, a keeled leaf.

One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; -- called also keelman.

A cooler; a vat for cooling wort, etc. [Written also keelvat.] Johnson.

To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies. Totten.

A cod.

A pencil of black or red lead; -- called also keelyvine pen. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

See Keeler,

Same as Keelhaul.

Ninepins. See Kayles.

A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship. Cross keelson, a similar structure lying athwart the main keelson, to support the engines and boilers.…

See Keelfat.

Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; -- said of a ship.

A projection downward from the keel of a yacht, resembling in shape the fin of a fish, though often with a cigar-shaped bulb of lead at the bottom, and generally made of metal. Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resista…

A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Grose.

The common European sheldrake. [Prov. Eng.]

A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador. [India]

On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.

The keel and keelson of a ship.