kelson

British  

/ ˈkɛlsən /

noun

1. a variant of keelson

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Example Sentences

The first plank of the ceiling next the kelson; the limber-strake.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

We bargained, him and I, and here we are: stores, brandy, block-house, the firewood you was thoughtful enough to cut, and, in a manner of speaking, the whole blessed boat, from cross-trees to kelson.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

That they were rats I could have no doubt, from their weight and the loud thud they made as they jumped off and on the kelson.

From Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures by Groome, William H. C.

Also, leaguers, the longest water-casks, stowed next the kelson, of 159 English imperial gallons each.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

My search proved to me that it could not be close beneath the kelson; I therefore felt backwards and forwards everywhere I could get my hand.

From Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures by Groome, William H. C.