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keelboater en · NOUN

Etymology

From keelboat + -er.

Meanings

1. Someone who travels by keelboat.
   • Performed with full-throttle gusto and contagious delight, Galena Rose teems with a rich mix of characters: confidence men, keelboaters who could brag Paul Bunyan into modesty, captains who turned steamboats into race hounds, genteel eastern ladies bravely hunkering down, a black miner trying to buy his freedom, and an antislavery preacher whose firebrand sermons scorched the heads of his congregation. 1988 November 25, Lawrence Bommer, “Tamer of Horses; Galena Rose: How Whiskey Won the West”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:

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