keelboat en · NOUN
Etymology
From keel + boat.
Meanings
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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.
1870, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in Life on the Mississippi:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| keelboats | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (6)
de Kielboot (sailboat having a keel) · fi kölivene (sailboat having a keel) · io seglonavo (sailboat having a keel) · ru килево́е су́дно (sailboat having a keel) · cmn 龍骨帆船 /龙骨帆船 (sailboat having a keel) · fr quillard (sailboat having a keel)