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Keelboat

noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 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

Etymology

From keel + boat.

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