кил noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
кил noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)
шлеп noun (a type of flat-bottomed boat)
преобръщам се verb (collapse, fall)

Catalan

2 entries

quilla noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
quilla noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

龍骨 /龙骨 noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Czech

1 entries

kýl noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Danish

1 entries

køl noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Dutch

2 entries

kiel noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
kiel noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)

Estonian

1 entries

kiil noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)

Finnish

2 entries

köli noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
köli noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)

French

1 entries

quille noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Galician

1 entries

quilla noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Georgian

2 entries

გემის ხერხემალი noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
კილი noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

German

3 entries

Kiel noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
Kiel noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)
Schwert noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)

Greek

2 entries

καταρρέω verb (collapse, fall)
σωριάζομαι verb (collapse, fall)

Hebrew

3 entries

שִׁדְרָה noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
שדרית noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
שדרן noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)

Ingrian

3 entries

antura noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
emäpuu noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
kili noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Italian

3 entries

carena noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
chiglia noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
deriva noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)

Japanese

3 entries

キール noun (a type of flat-bottomed boat)
竜骨 noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
艀 noun (a type of flat-bottomed boat)

Korean

1 entries

용골 noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Latin

1 entries

carīna noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Low German

1 entries

kyl noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Macedonian

2 entries

кобилица noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
кобилица noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)

Malay

1 entries

lunas noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Māori

1 entries

takere noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Norman

1 entries

tchelle noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Norwegian

1 entries

kjøl noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)

Occitan

1 entries

quilha noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Old English

1 entries

cēol noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Old Saxon

1 entries

kiol noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Persian

1 entries

شاهتیر noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Polish

4 entries

kil noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
kil noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)
stępka noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
stępka noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)

Portuguese

1 entries

quilha noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Russian

4 entries

киль noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
киль noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)
киль noun (petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower)
лодочка noun (petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

kobilica noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
кобилица noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Slovene

1 entries

gredelj noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Spanish

2 entries

quilla noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
quilla noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)

Swedish

2 entries

köl noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
köl noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)

Tagalog

2 entries

kilya noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
lunas noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Thai

1 entries

กระดูกงู noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Turkish

4 entries

gemi omurgası noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
karina noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
omurga noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
salma noun (rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability)

Volapük

3 entries

kuil noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
kuil nafa noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
nafakuil noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Welsh

1 entries

cêl noun (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

Sample sentences

19 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The godmother wished the ship at the christening, among other things: "May there always be enough water beneath your keel!"

Source: tatoeba (3996483)

The sailor plumbed the shallow water with a weighted rope, and the ship's keel did not scrape the rocky sea-bed.

Source: tatoeba (5270322)

All hail the speech. We quit this other home, / and leaving here a handful on the shore, / spread sail and scour with hollow keel the foam.

Source: tatoeba (7007771)

"O Goddess-born, high auspices are thine, / and heaven's plain omens guide thee o'er the main. / Thus Jove, by lot unfolding his design, / assorts the chances, and the Fates ordain. / This much may I of many things explain, / how best o'er foreign seas to urge thy keel / in safety, and Ausonian ports attain, / the rest from Helenus the Fates conceal, / and Juno's envious power forbids me to reveal."

Source: tatoeba (7076702)

Showing 4 of 19 available sentences.

More for "keel"

Meaning Antonyms Sentences Word Type

Keep exploring

Compare antonyms Use in sentences Read the blog

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.