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keelson

kel suhn

  • n  a longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it

  • Alarm gongs clanged violently from lookout to keelson; bugles sounded to-your-stations.
  • But if the French and Spanish navies were rotten to their garboard strakes, Pope makes clear that the British was rotten to its keelson.

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