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Verbi

1. (humorous, nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of kill.
2. (Scotland, transitive) To mark with ruddle.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To cool; make cool; to cool by stirring or skimming in order to keep from boiling over.
4. (intransitive, followed by "over") to collapse, to fall
5. To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To moderate the ardour or intensity of; assuage; to appease, pacify, or lessen.
7. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
8. (intransitive, obsolete) To become cool; cool down.

Substantiivi

1. (Scotland) Red chalk; ruddle.
2. (brewing) A broad, flat vessel used for cooling liquids; a brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
3. (nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
4. (nautical) A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
5. (aeronautics) 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.
6. (by extension) The rigid bottom part of something else, especially an iceberg.
7. (nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
8. (zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
9. (botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.