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  • noun Plural form of keelboat.

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Examples

  • They also tried to get a reaction out of the tourists floating by on the Mark Twain riverboat and the Mike Fink keelboats by chanting slogans like "free Charles Manson" and "legalize marijuana," while openly smoking pot.

    Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

  • They also tried to get a reaction out of the tourists floating by on the Mark Twain riverboat and the Mike Fink keelboats by chanting slogans like "free Charles Manson" and "legalize marijuana," while openly smoking pot.

    Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

  • They also tried to get a reaction out of the tourists floating by on the Mark Twain riverboat and the Mike Fink keelboats by chanting slogans like "free Charles Manson" and "legalize marijuana," while openly smoking pot.

    Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

  • They also tried to get a reaction out of the tourists floating by on the Mark Twain riverboat and the Mike Fink keelboats by chanting slogans like "free Charles Manson" and "legalize marijuana," while openly smoking pot.

    Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

  • They also tried to get a reaction out of the tourists floating by on the Mark Twain riverboat and the Mike Fink keelboats by chanting slogans like "free Charles Manson" and "legalize marijuana," while openly smoking pot.

    Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

  • The wild Red may have been fine for the keelboats and rafts of old, but it was inhospitable to the kind of barge traffic that had become the mainstay of modern inland agricultural and petrochemical shipping.

    Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

  • Bruce has been sailing all his life, starting off in small dinghies and skiffs, then moving on to keelboats and multihulls.

    True Spirit Jessica Watson 2010

  • Various canoes, keelboats, pirogues clustered around the main vessel, but Tasmin could gain no conception of what was wrong.

    The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

  • One after another, the flotilla turned to the left, the keelboats and pirogues trimming their sails to catch the late afternoon wind, the canoes keeping to the center of the narrow river in order to ride the current.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • The rest of the flotilla was approaching the shore: canoes, pirogues, a couple of keelboats, more than three dozen boats in all.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

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