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keelboats

keelboats is the plural of keelboat.

Meaning of keelboat

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

Questions about keelboats

What is keelboats the plural of?
Keelboats is the plural of keelboat.

Words near keelboats in the dictionary

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

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