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How to pronounce “keel”
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Pronunciation guide for keel
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of keel with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left
just paused for a time to bring us back to an even keel.
- Definition summary
- (nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
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How to pronounce keel
I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left

just paused for a time to bring us back to an even keel.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “keel”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
- (nautical) A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
- (aeronautics) 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.
- (by extension) The rigid bottom part of something else, especially an iceberg.
- (nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
- (zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
- (botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive, followed by "over") to collapse, to fall
- To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
- To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
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