Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To collapse, to fall. · To traverse with a keel; to navigate. · To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern. · A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability. · 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. · The rigid bottom part of something else, especially an iceberg.
From Middle English kele, from Old Norse kjǫlr, itself from Proto-Germanic *keluz, of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English ċēol from a related root. Distantly related to kile.
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