keelboater
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Noun[edit]
keelboater (plural keelboaters)
- Someone who travels by keelboat.
- 1988 November 25, Lawrence Bommer, “Tamer of Horses; Galena Rose: How Whiskey Won the West”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Performed with full-throttle gusto and contagious delight, Galena Rose teems with a rich mix of characters: confidence men, keelboaters who could brag Paul Bunyan into modesty, captains who turned steamboats into race hounds, genteel eastern ladies bravely hunkering down, a black miner trying to buy his freedom, and an antislavery preacher whose firebrand sermons scorched the heads of his congregation.