Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cargo-lighter built with a keel and decked over; a flat-bottomed freight-vessel with no power of pro-pulsion.
- noun Same as
keel , 6. - noun Any boat built with a keel, as distinguished from a center-board boat.
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Examples
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The boys were delighted with the varied activity and each day observed scores of things they could not have seen on the prairies: the shoeing of oxen, the tapping of a beer keg, repairs to a keel-boat, Sibley's commissary store with its nails and buckets and brooms.
Centennial Michener, James 1974
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When completed, in shape it is not unlike a small keel-boat.
What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant
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The captain of the keel-boat was shouting to us to make haste, and there was no time for another word; and I was glad to have it so, for another word might have made me indeed the boy Aunt Fanny was always calling me.
The Rose of Old St. Louis Mary Dillon
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Between Pittsburgh and Shawneetown, whilst "gliding merrily down the Ohio" in a _keel-boat_, "navigated by eight or ten of those half-horse and half-alligator gentry commonly called Ohio boatmen," Judge Hall was lulled to sweet sleep, as the rowers were "tugging at the oar," timing their strokes to the cadence: --
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 374, June 6, 1829 Various
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Ropes are cast off, the keel-boat pushes her blunt nose through the cold, muddy water, the oars churn up dirty, yellow foam, and cheers shake the sodden air.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Ropes are cast off, the keel-boat pushes her blunt nose through the cold, muddy water, the oars churn up dirty, yellow foam, and cheers shake the sodden air.
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909
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Ropes are cast off, the keel-boat pushes her blunt nose through the cold, muddy water, the oars churn up dirty, yellow foam, and cheers shake the sodden air.
The Crossing 1904
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Pittsburg, anxiously waiting for his keel-boat to be completed, received
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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Furthermore, Colonel Clark was off the next morning at dawn to buy a Mississippi keel-boat.
The Crossing 1904
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They shook hands solemnly and went onward with their devil-may-care test, devised in a historic keel-boat man's brain, as inflamed then by alcohol as their own were now.
The Covered Wagon Emerson Hough 1890
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