in shipbuilding. Blocks of timber laid on the ship’s keel. This is no part of the ship, but it serves to make the keel more rigid.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.