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竜骨龍骨
りゅうこつ
1. [n]
▶ keel (of a ship)



History:
2. A 2023-04-04 20:50:11  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Probably applies to flying boats.
1. A* 2023-04-04 19:09:41  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
saito: The keel (of a ship)
prog: the keel
gg5: 【造船・空】 a [the] keel.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 竜骨    │ 35,795 │ 78.4% │
│ 龍骨    │  5,884 │ 12.9% │
│ りゅうこつ │  3,991 │  8.7% │
╰─ーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
  Comments:
Wikipedia's "keel" article doesn't say anything about aircraft, so gg5's 空 tag seems suspicious
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>龍骨</keb>
@@ -12 +15 @@
-<gloss>keel</gloss>
+<gloss>keel (of a ship)</gloss>

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