- a variation of keelson.
kelson
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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She was stripped down to her kelson outside and in, for the purpose of undergoing a repair that will make her, to all intents, a new ship.
From Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Power, Tyrone
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 part of a mast which is below deck to the step in the kelson; of a bowsprit, the portion within the knight-heads.
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
From stem to starn, from top to kelson, The British Fleet is all your own, To-day as in them times of Nelson.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. July 30, 1887 by
The Saratoga shook from kelson to cross trees under the tremendous discharge.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler
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