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keelboatman

keelboatman noun: the person who operates a keelboat.

Noun

keelboatman (plural keelboatmen)

  1. The person who operates a keelboat.
    • 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 keelboatman

pluralkeelboatmen

Origin of keelboatman

From keelboat + -man.

Questions about keelboatman

What does keelboatman mean?
Keelboatman means the person who operates a keelboat.
What part of speech is keelboatman?
Keelboatman is a noun.
What is the plural of keelboatman?
The plural of keelboatman is keelboatmen.

Words near keelboatman in the dictionary

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

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