keelboat

Etymology

From keel + boat.

keelboat means any sailboat having a keel (as opposed to a centerboard or daggerboard). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

Any sailboat having a keel (as opposed to a centerboard or daggerboard).“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.”