Meaning of keelboatman | Babel Free

Definitions

The person who operates a keelboat.

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.”

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