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Definition of Keelman
1. n. See Keeler, 1.
Definition of Keelman
1. Noun. (historical) A keeler; one who manages a coal boat. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Keelman
1. a man who works on a barge [n KEELMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keelman
Literary usage of Keelman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer by Richard Burn, Joseph Chitty, Thomas Chitty (1837)
"... or person employing such artificer, handicraftsman, miner, overplus to the
owners, after payment of the charges of such distress and collier, keelman, ..."
2. The Statutes at Large: From Magna Charta to ... 1869 by Great Britain (1765)
"... if under collier, keelman, pitman, ... miner, collier, keelman, pitman, ...
collier, keelman, million. pitman, ..."
3. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters by William Hawkins, John Curwood (1824)
"3. it is further enacted, " That if any seaman, keelman, caster, ship carpenter,
or other " person, shall be convicted of any of the offences aforesaid in ..."
4. A Treatise on Crimes and Indictable Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell (1826)
"2- obstruct- second section enacts, that it any seaman, keelman, caster, ship-
assaulting carpenter, or other person, shall unlawfully, and with force, ..."
5. Rhymes of Northern Bards: Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs by John Bell (1812)
"To be with rue at noon ; But last I married a keelman, And my good days are done.
Some good-like body, some bonny body, I thought to marry a parson, ..."
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