The Collaborative International Dictionary
Keel \Keel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Keeled; p. pr. & vb. n. Keeling.]
To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
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To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
To keel over, to upset; to capsize. [Colloq.]
Usage examples of "to keel over".
If anyone were to keel over with the first bite you can imagine Branson's reaction.
And there was a stretch during Amarante's sixties when people kept running away from him, cutting conversations short and like that, because everybody knew he was going to keel over in the very next ten seconds, and nobody likes to be present when somebody drops dead.
He was watching me, obviously worried: I suppose I looked a bit far gone because the blood had soaked into the tunic below my ribs and my back was in a mess and my eyes wouldn't quite focus, kept blurring, use some sleep that was all, but he was waiting for me to keel over and blast the whole lot of us into Kingdom Come.
Jacaud grunted, started to keel over and Mallory smashed the broken chair down again and again, until it splintered.
The effort would have caused him to keel over had not Ehomba reached out to steady him.