Seel vs Keel - What's the difference?
seel | keel |
(UK, dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
(UK, dialectal) Opportunity; time; season.
(falconry) To sew together the eyes of a young hawk.
* J. Reading
(by extension) To blind.
(intransitive, obsolete, of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm.
* Samuel Pepys
(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.
to collapse, to fall
To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
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) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- the seel of the day
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), .Verb
(en verb)- Fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling.
Etymology 4
Compare (etyl) , and (etyl) (m) (transitive verb).Verb
(en verb)- (Sir Walter Raleigh)
Anagrams
* * * * *keel
English
(wikipedia keel)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* even keel * keelhaul * keel overVerb
(en verb)- He keeled over after having a stroke.