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Definition of Keelboats
1. keelboat [n] - See also: keelboat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keelboats
Literary usage of Keelboats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Progress of America, from the Discovery by Columbus to the Year 1846 by John Macgregor (1847)
"On each flatboat, either fully or in part laden with produce, materials, or
merchandise of any kind 10 00 On all barges, keelboats, or boats measuring less ..."
2. The Ohio River: A Course of Empire by Archer Butler Hulbert (1906)
"The Willing a so-called " galley-batteau" which played a part in Clark's conquest
of Vincennes, was this type of a boat, as were the keelboats used by ..."
3. Recollections of Seventy Years by Augustus Louis Chetlain (1899)
"They were mostly from Missouri, Kentucky and Southern Illinois, making their way
to the mines on horseback, by ox-teams and by *keelboats up the Mississippi ..."
4. Recollections of Seventy Years by Augustus Louis Chetlain (1899)
"They were mostly from Missouri, Kentucky and Southern Illinois, making their way
to the mines on horseback, by ox-teams and by *keelboats up the Mississippi ..."
5. The American Fur Trade of the Far West: A History of the Pioneer Trading by Hiram Martin Chittenden (1901)
"Farnham & Davenport take up their goods from this city to the Indian villages in
keelboats, with their clerks and men. Mr. Cabanne and Mr. McKenzie ..."
6. Household Manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860: A Study in by Rolla Milton Tryon (1917)
"While the canoes, pirogues, bateaux, barges, keelboats, flatboats, arks, and
sailing vessels had done good service before ..."
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