keilen
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkaɪ̯lən/
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Verb
keilen (weak, third-person singular present keilt, past tense keilte, past participle gekeilt, auxiliary haben)
- (obsolete) to hit or insert with a wedge or as if by one
- to split with a wedge
- Synonym: spalten
- (colloquial, takes a reflexive pronoun) to brawl
- Synonym: prügeln
- (colloquial, transitive, dated) to recruit
- 1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan, Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 29:
- Er war sofort von einem Kollegen für eine Verbindung gekeilt worden. Auch Diederich sollte ihr beitreten; es waren die Neuteutonen, eine hochfeine Korporation, sagte Hornung; allein sechs Pharmazeuten waren dabei.
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Conjugation
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “keilen” in Duden online
- “keilen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “keilen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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