keelboater

Etymology

From keelboat + -er.

keelboater means someone who travels by keelboat. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

Someone who travels by keelboat.“Performed with full-throttle gusto and contagious delight, Galena Rose teems with a rich mix of characters: confidence men, keelboaters who could brag Paul Bunyan into modesty, captains who turned steamboats into race hounds, genteel eastern ladies bravely hunkering down, a black miner trying to buy his freedom, and an antislavery preacher whose firebrand sermons scorched the heads of his congrega”