Crossword clues for keelboat
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context sailing English) Any sailboat having a keel (as opposed to a centerboard or daggerboard).
WordNet
n. river boat with a shallow draught and a keel but no sails; used to carry freight; moved by rowing or punting or towing
Wikipedia
A keelboat is a riverine cargo-capable working boat, or a small- to mid-sized recreational sailing yacht. The boats in the first category have shallow structural keels, and are nearly flat-bottomed and often used leeboards if forced in open water, while modern recreational keelboats have prominent fixed fin keels, and considerable draft. The two terms may draw from cognate words with different final meaning.
Usage examples of "keelboat".
Located where the Tailaroam River emptied into the Glittergeist Sea, the port was abustle with traffic as cargo was transferred from barges and keelboats to ocean-going freighters or animal-drawn wagons destined for the numerous towns and cities sprinkled through the vast forest known as the Bell woods.
From his cabin porch in Sul-lens Spring, a short distance above the junction of the Little Boeuf and the Big Boeuf on the south bank of the Missouri, he could watch the keelboats come and go.
A gawky, familiar figure edged its way toward them through the gaudy press of market women and keelboat thugs, stevedores and flaneurs, and January recognized Esteban, followed closely by a tubby, pleasant-faced little gentleman wearing an overly elaborate lilac-striped cravat.
Creole ladies generally reserved for drunken keelboat men sleeping in their own vomit in the gutters of the Rue Bourbon.
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.