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verb
- To fall in or as if in a faint
- To heel or lean precariously
noun
- The chief structural member of a boat or ship that extends longitudinally along the center of its bottom and that often projects from the bottom
- Ship
- An anatomical process forming a ridge (as on the sternum of a bird) carina
- The lower part of a papilionaceous flower (as of a pea or bean plant) that consists of two fused petals, lies between the wings see wing, and encloses the pistil and stamens
"The keel, the lowest petal of the pea-like flower, is short and rounded."
noun
- A flat-bottomed barge used especially on the Tyne to carry coal
verb
- Cool
noun
- Red ocher
phrasal verb
- To fall down suddenly
"He just keeled over and died from a heart attack."
noun
- A projection like a fin extending from the hull near the turn of the bilge on either side to check rolling
adjective
- Having a horizontal surface flat
"even ground"
- Being without break, indentation, or irregularity smooth
- Being in the same plane or line
- Free from variation uniform
"his disposition was even"
- Level
- Equal, fair
"an even exchange"
- Being in equilibrium balanced
- Candid
- Being any of the integers (such as −2, 0, and +2) that are divisible by two without leaving a remainder
- Marked by an even number
- Being a mathematical function such that f(x) = f(−x) where the value remains unchanged if the sign of the independent variable is reversed
- Exact, precise
"an even dollar"
- As likely as not fifty-fifty
"an even chance of winning"
This clue was used on March 8, 2025.