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Definition of "keelboat" []

  • A riverboat with a keel but without sails, used for carrying freight. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "keelboat" in a sentence
  • "Hold on tight: But what could the Concord sage have known of the news off the boat when that boat was a keelboat or a broadhorn docking at the noisome slum of Natchez-under-the-Hill or New Orleans where some eighty years later a precocious Jelly Roll Morton was learning the street songs that would ultimately scorch the stately décor of the Library of Congress's Coolidge Chamber Music Auditorium when he recorded them for Alan Lomax?"
  • "Women's keelboat Yngling, Race 9 and 10, Qingdao International Marina, 12: 20-4: 30 p.m."
  • "Women's keelboat Yngling, Race 7 and 8, Qingdao International Marina, 12: 20-4: 20 p.m."