kelson
Britishnoun
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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
Numbers climbed up from beneath the kelson; some came from the fore part of the ship, others from aft.
From Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures by Groome, William H. C.
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
He gives a quick word to cox, rattles his hands away, and swings as if he meant to strike his face against the kelson of the boat.
From Rowing by Lehmann, Rudolf Chambers
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.
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