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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In shipbuilding, a keel composed of a line of heavy rectangular iron or steel bars, with the greater dimension vertical and projecting below the bottom of the ship, to which the keel is attached by the garboard-plates. The inner edges of the garboard-plates are flanged down and riveted to the bar-keel.

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