Obs. rare. [f. KEEL sb.2] trans. To convey in a keel. Hence Keeling vbl. sb.

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1591.  R. Hitchcock, in Garrard’s Art Warre, 355. Where they sende it downe in keeles, to giue for keeling of a quarter iiij. d.

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1599.  Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (1871), 27. Their goods and merchandise, from beyond seas, are keeled up … to their very thresholds [in Norwich].

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