- a variation of keelson.
kelson
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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There were the kelson and the stout ribs of the ship, the planking over them, the water-butts on either side, the stout bulkheads.
From Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures by William H. C. Groome
Exhausted by my efforts as well as by my hunger and thirst, I lay stretched upon the kelson till I had, I suppose, somewhat recovered.
From Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures by William H. C. Groome
A knee-piece of oak-timber, worked on the after dead-wood; the fore-end is scarphed into the kelson, and the after-side fayed into the throats of the transoms.
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 Sir Edward Belcher
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
“Everything from truck to kelson, I may say, is under his charge,” he replied consequentially.
From Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days by William Henry Giles Kingston
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