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Meaning of keelboat | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Any sailboat having a keel (as opposed to a centerboard or daggerboard).

Equivalents

Deutsch Kielboot
Suomi kölivene
Français quillard

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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