keelboat

/keel-boht/US // ˈkilˌboʊt //UK // (ˈkiːlˌbəʊt) //

龙骨船,龙骨舟,龙骨艇,龙骨式船

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a roughly built, shallow freight boat, having a keel to permit sailing into the wind.

Somewhere on the upper river Sublette sent the boat back, and proceeded by keelboat to Fort Union.
The best cabin in a keelboat had been furnished in sumptuous style for the accommodation of the self-indulgent chief.
A keelboat was generally manned by ten hands, principally Canadian French, and a patroon or master.
Then a broken and waterlogged keelboat, fully twenty-five feet long, scurried past, a great menace to every boat afloat.
About sundown a keelboat came down the river and landed, bearing three dead bodies and several wounded.