OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 20462

keel over

/ˈkiːl ˈəʊvə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
volcar • zozobrar
Of a vessel: to roll so far on its side that it cannot recover; to capsize or turn turtle.
What a tiny little schooner! But is it not bold to spread both sails? And see, now that we have come round to the wind, how the skiff keels over.
[H]is bandaged cry was, to beach him on the whale's topmost back. Nothing loath, his bowsman hauled him up and up, through a blinding foam that blent two whitenesses together; till…
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