keelboatman

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noun

The person who operates a keelboat.

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Meanings

nounkeelboatman (plural keelboatmen)

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

Origin

From keelboat + -man.

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APA

keelboatman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/keelboatman

MLA

“keelboatman.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/keelboatman. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “keelboatman,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/keelboatman.

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