Definition of Keeling

1. n. A cod.

Definition of Keeling

1. Verb. (present participle of keel) ¹

2. Noun. (zoology) A cod. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Keeling

1. keel [v] - See also: keel

Medical Definition of Keeling

1. A cod. Origin: Cf. Icel. Keila, Sw. Kolja, Dan. Kulle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Keeling

keeled chest
keeled garlic
keeled over
keeler
keelers
keelhale
keelhaled
keelhales
keelhaling
keelhaul
keelhauled
keelhauling
keelhauls
keelie
keelies
keeling (current term)
keelings
keelless
keelman
keelmen
keels
keelson
keelsons
keelyvine pen
keema
keen
keen-sighted
keen-witted
keen as mustard
keen on

Literary usage of Keeling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"Thereupon keeling introduced to the unsuspecting Goodenough, as a thoroughly ... keeling by a trick took his brother to Jenkins's office as an independent ..."

2. Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum (1901)
"TO the keeling Cocos Islands was now only five hundred and fifty miles; but even in this ... for on that course I made the keeling Islands right ahead. ..."

3. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"CHAPTER XX keeling ISLAND:—CORAL FORMATIONS keeling Island—Singular ... We arrived in view of the keeling or /-\ Cocos Islands, situated in the Indian Ocean ..."

4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"He doth not believe that keeling was in drink. M This Examinant saith, That keeling told them, ' it were the gentlemen that ..."

5. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1811)
"This Examinant saith, It was in order (u be understood by keeling) to discover a plut; and he told them, ' that if he should be so tu ' prevailed with as to ..."

6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1879)
"NOTES ON THE COCOS OB keeling ISLANDS. of Sumatra, this small island was really a piece of Malacca, having the same geological structure, and there could be ..."

7. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"CHAPTER XX keeling ISLAND:—CORAL FORMATIONS keeling Island—Singular ... We arrived in view of the keeling or /-\ Cocos Islands, situated in the Indian Ocean ..."

8. Visitation of England and Wales by Joseph Jackson Howard, England College of arms (1903)
"Assignment of Arms of keeling, to be borne quarterly with Fletcher, to the Rev. William Fletcher, 1836. To all and Singular to whom these Presents shall ..."

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