Definitions for keelboat

keelboat keel·boat

Spelling: [keel-boht]
IPA: /ˈkilˌboʊt/

Keelboat is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 230 anagrams from letters in keelboat (abeeklot).

Definitions for keelboat

noun

  1. a roughly built, shallow freight boat, having a keel to permit sailing into the wind.

Origin of keelboat

1685-95; keel1 or keel2 + boat

Examples for keelboat

A keelboat was generally manned by ten hands, principally Canadian French, and a patroon or master.

The new Northwest was settled after the great day of the keelboat on western waters.

The best cabin in a keelboat had been furnished in sumptuous style for the accommodation of the self-indulgent chief.

The keelboat Mary Ann come up the river with a lot of travellers.

Fort Gibson saw the beginning and the end of the keelboat and the whole career of the river steamboat.

Then followed a keelboat race of a thousand miles up 351 the Missouri.

Messengers were then sent up the river to endeavour to procure a keelboat; meanwhile all our hunters went ashore.

He was captain of a keelboat, which was the craft mostly used in ascending the river.

Somewhere on the upper river Sublette sent the boat back, and proceeded by keelboat to Fort Union.

About sundown a keelboat came down the river and landed, bearing three dead bodies and several wounded.

Word Value for keelboat
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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