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keel-boat|ˈkiːlbəʊt|
[f. keel n.1 and n.2]
†a. ? A small keel: cf. keel n.2 Obs.
b. A large flat boat used on American rivers. U.S.
c. A yacht having a keel instead of a centre-board.
a.1695Lond. Gaz. No. 2073/1 An Act for the better Admeasurement of Keels and Keel-Boats, in the Port of New-Castle. 1746Act 19 Geo. II, c. 22 Any Ship, Pink, Crayer, Lighter, Keil-boat, or other Vessel whatsoever.
b.1786in Mag. Amer. Hist. (1877) I. 176 Great numbers of Kentucke and keel boats passing every day; some to the Falls, others to Post Vincent—Illinois Country. 1822J. Flint Lett. Amer. 85 Keel boats are large shallow vessels, varying from thirty to seventy tons burden. They are built on a keel with ribs, and covered with plank, as ships are. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville III. 119 Captain Sublette was ascending the Yellowstone with a keel boat, laden with supplies. 1874E. Eggleston Circuit Rider xxvii. 266 A stranger..reported that he had seen such a man on a keel-boat. 1949Indiana Mag. of Hist. June 147 The first keelboat on the St. Joseph River, the ‘Fair Play’, arrived at South Bend July 1, 1832.
c.1893Westm. Gaz. 17 Oct. 5/3 On the other side of the Atlantic the most famous contemporary yachts have also been keel-boats. Ibid., It has been a matter of general opinion that, other things being equal, a keel boat can run a centreboard.
Hence keel-boater, -boatman.
1839Knickerbocker XIII. 344 A..keel-boatman..saw a steam-boat gallantly paddling up against the centre current of that ‘Father of Rivers’. 1883‘Mark Twain’ Life on Mississippi iii. 41 The keelboatman became a deck hand, or a mate. 1912I. S. Cobb Back Home 296 [He was] the roughest of them all..rougher even than the keel-boaters and the trappers. 1941F. L. Dorsey Master of Mississippi 129 Keelboatmen and ‘broadhorn’ pushers eyed it with suspicion. 1949B. A. Botkin Treas. S. Folklore ii. ii. 191 Besides madmen and devils the Mississippi River also bred giants—the keelboatmen whose acknowledged king was Mike Fink. |
