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Definition of Keelson
1. Noun. A longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it.
Definition of Keelson
1. 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.
Definition of Keelson
1. Noun. (nautical) A longitudinal beam fastened on top of the keel of a vessel for strength and stiffness. ¹
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Definition of Keelson
1. a beam in a ship [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keelson
Literary usage of Keelson
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Ship-building Industry of the United States by Henry Hall (1884)
"One main keelson of }g-inch iron, 3f feet high, continuous fore and aft, cutting
through all floor plates, riveted to the latter with 3 by 4 by -fg ..."
2. Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects by Royal Institution of Naval Architects (1863)
"If an Intercostal middle line keelson be adopted, it is to be of the same thickness
as the floor plates, and rivetted to vertical angle iron on all floor ..."
3. The Elements of Wood Ship Construction by William Henry Curtis, 1884-, William Henry Curtis (1919)
"The size of the ship, as well as the sizes of each of the keelson strakes ...
82, it will be noted, consists of a main keelson with two strakes of rider ..."
4. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"A disadvantage in a keelson composed of a single large bar is the discontinuity
... The purpose of the covering-plate in a built I-section keelson (Fig. ..."
5. Ship-building in Iron and Wood by Andrew Murray, Robert Murray (1863)
"It is more frequently formed of a plate, sufficiently deep to form both the keel
and the centre plate of the keelson, or of a box form. ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"keelson, or KELSON, kfl'son, a line of timbers on the middle of the floor, timbers
of a ship over the keel. They are jointed and bolted together, and, ..."
7. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"keelson, or KELSON; a piece of timber forming the interior or counterpart of the
keel, being laid upon the middle of the floor timbers immediately over the ..."
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