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keelboat

keelboat noun: any sailboat having a keel (as opposed to a centerboard or daggerboard).

Noun

keelboat (plural keelboats)

  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.1870, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in Life on the Mississippi

Forms of keelboat

pluralkeelboats

Origin of keelboat

From keel + boat.

Words formed from keelboat

Questions about keelboat

What does keelboat mean?
Keelboat means any sailboat having a keel (as opposed to a centerboard or daggerboard).
What part of speech is keelboat?
Keelboat is a noun.
What is the plural of keelboat?
The plural of keelboat is keelboats.

Words near keelboat in the dictionary

  1. Keelan
  2. Keelans
  3. keelat
  4. keelback
  5. keelbacks
  6. keelboat
  7. keelboater
  8. keelboaters
  9. keelboatman
  10. keelboatmen
  11. keelboats

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