keelboat

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keelboat

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From keel + boat.

noun keelboats

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.

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noun sailboat having a keel

中文	龍骨帆船 /龙骨帆船
Français	quillard
Deutsch	Kielboot
Русский	килево́е су́дно kilevóje súdno

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@misc{keelboat_2026,
  title = {keelboat},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/keelboat},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}