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keelboatmen

keelboatmen is the plural of keelboatman.

Meaning of keelboatman

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

Questions about keelboatmen

What is keelboatmen the plural of?
Keelboatmen is the plural of keelboatman.

Words near keelboatmen in the dictionary

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

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