Keelson
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
kel'son. A piece of timber in a ship, laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the
keel, fastened with long bolts and
clinched, and thus binding the floor timbers to the
keel.
Keelson
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
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.
