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Keelson

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Keelson'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​k/keelson.html. 1828.