rare. Also 4 keler. [f. KEEL sb.2 + -ER1.] † a. A keelman. b. (see quot. 1875).

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1322.  Tynemouth Chartulary (MS.), lf. 68 [cf. Gibson, Monast. Tynemouth, I. 139]. Et omnes … seruientes in bargiâ qui dicuntur kelers … venient quolibet anno ad Natale domini in festo sanctorum Innocentium apud Whiteley.

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1875.  Ure’s Dict. Arts, Keeler, a manager of coal-barges and colliers in the Durham and Northumberland districts.

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