keelboatman

Etymology

From keelboat + -man.

keelboatman means the person who operates a keelboat. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

The person who operates a keelboat.“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.”