keeled Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb walk as if unable to control one's movements
    swag; lurch; stagger; keel; careen; reel.
    • The drunken man staggered into the room
  2. adjective having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship
    ridged; carinated; carinate.
    • a carinate sepal

WordNet


Keeled adjective
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as, a keeled leaf.
  2. (Zoöl.) Having a median ridge; carinate; as, a keeled scale.

Webster 1913