Usage examples for keelson
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The boy knew that he must be listening to the Touch- me- not, whose keelson came from an old line- of- battle ship. – The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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Black as a chimney from keelson to truck, she was as like to a butterfly as a lady's hand is to a monkey's paw. – The Lifeboat by R.M. Ballantyne
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English she was from truck to keelson, and long before she fired that disdainful shot the gunners of the Wasp had put out their smoking matches. – Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by James Barnes