keeled [ki:ld]
adj.
[船]备有龙骨的
keeled[ adj ]
having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship
<adj.ppl>
a carinate sepal
Keeled \Keeled\, a.
1. (Bot.) Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on
the back; as, a keeled leaf.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Having a median ridge; carinate; as, a keeled
scale.
Keel \Keel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Keeled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Keeling}.]
1. To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
2. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
{To keel over}, to upset; to capsize. [Colloq.]
- A 10-year-old boy, visiting on a class trip, keeled over backward when one of these creatures blared like a French horn in his face.
- That was proved by Mr. Marion at a Sotheby's auction in the '70s when a front-row bidder keeled over from a heart attack.
- "Even if Saddam had not done what he did, the market still would have keeled over," says A.C. Moore, a managing director at Argus Investments.