kelson

British  

/ ˈkɛlsən /

noun

1. a variant of keelson

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Example Sentences

I was, in reality, right down on the kelson, though I didn’t know what it was called at the time.

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

A piece of timber wrought longitudinally above the main kelson.

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

I felt it all over, and tried its strength by a blow on the kelson, for at first I was afraid it might be rotten.

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

A large clamp of timber fixed on the kelson, and fitted to receive the tenoned heel of a mast.

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