keelboatman

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

keelboat +‎ -man

Noun[edit]

keelboatman (plural keelboatmen)

  1. The person who operates a keelboat.
    • 1870, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in Life on the Mississippi‎[1]:
      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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