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Seel vs Keel - What's the difference?

seel | keel |

As nouns the difference between seel and keel

is that seel is rope, cord while keel is skittle, pin.

seel

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
  • (UK, dialectal) Opportunity; time; season.
  • the seel of the day
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) (m), .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (falconry) To sew together the eyes of a young hawk.
  • * J. Reading
  • Fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling.
  • (by extension) To blind.
  • Etymology 4

    Compare (etyl) , and (etyl) (m) (transitive verb).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive, obsolete, of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm.
  • * Samuel Pepys
  • (Sir Walter Raleigh)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.
  • (Sandys)

    Anagrams

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    keel

    English

    (wikipedia keel)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
  • (nautical) Sometimes, a rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
  • (nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
  • A material similar to chalk or crayon used to mark pavement.
  • (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.
  • A brewer's cooling vat.
  • Derived terms

    * even keel * keelhaul * keel over

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to collapse, to fall
  • He keeled over after having a stroke.
  • To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
  • To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
  • Derived terms

    * keel over

    Anagrams

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