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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(sailing) 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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Keel boat means (sailing) Any sailboat having a keel (as opposed to a centerboard or daggerboard)..
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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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