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keelboater

keelboater noun: someone who travels by keelboat.

Noun

keelboater (plural keelboaters)

  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...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

Forms of keelboater

pluralkeelboaters

Origin of keelboater

From keelboat + -er.

Questions about keelboater

What does keelboater mean?
Keelboater means someone who travels by keelboat.
What part of speech is keelboater?
Keelboater is a noun.
What is the plural of keelboater?
The plural of keelboater is keelboaters.

Words near keelboater in the dictionary

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

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