kelson
Britishnoun
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She has an iron keel and kelson to resist a bump on rocks, and with four water-tight compartments to limit its effects if once stove in.
From The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" by John MacGregor
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 Sir Edward Belcher
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 William H. C. Groome
Those which lie on the keel, and are fastened to it with bolts through the 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 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
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