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- noun Plural form of
kelson .
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Examples
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The live-oak kelsons, the pine planks, the spars, the hackmatack-roots for knees,
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The live-oak kelsons, the pine planks, the spars, the
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Their thirty kelsons hummed like thirty harp-strings, and looked as straight whilst they left their parallel traces on the sea.
The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855
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The live-oak kelsons, the pine planks, the spars, the hackmatack-roots for knees,
The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855
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The live-oak kelsons, the pine planks, the spars, the hackmatack-roots for knees,
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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Government surveyors, and it is pronounced admirably adapted for kelsons, stern-posts, great beams for steam-frigates, and other heavy work.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844
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The unfortunate ship was now in a blaze; at half-past eleven she blew up, and the tremendous concussion was felt at the very kelsons of all the ships near her.
Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I John Ross 1816
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