Keelboat
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any sailboat having a keel (as opposed to a centerboard or daggerboard).
"By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers."
- 2 river boat with a shallow draught and a keel but no sails; used to carry freight; moved by rowing or punting or towing wordnet
Example
More examples"By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers."
Etymology
From keel + boat.
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