bulb keel
noun Nautical.
a narrow keel having a swelling weight of lead or iron at the bottom.
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Origin of bulb keel
First recorded in 1890–95
Words nearby bulb keel
bulbar paralysis, bulb fly, bulbiferous, bulbil, bulbitis, bulb keel, bulblet, bulb mite, bulbo-, bulbocavernosus, bulb of corpus spongiosum
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