| 单词 | keel-boatman |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskeel-boatman keel-boatman n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > sailor on other types of craft brigantiner1555 gondolier1603 collier1716 Greenlandman?1785 junkman1795 surfman1816 Whitehaller1824 gig1833 yawler1833 coracler1834 keel-boatman1839 square-rigger1855 surf boatman1856 skiffman1868 flatman1883 yawlsman1885 packet rat1887 hookerman1894 scooterist1919 launchman1924 sampan-wallah1932 tanker man1932 hydrocyclist- 1839 Knickerbocker 13 344 A..keel-boatman..saw a steam-boat gallantly paddling up against the centre current of that ‘Father of Rivers’. 1843 Amer. Pioneer 2 272 The keel-boatman regarded the flat-boatman and raftsmen with great contempt. 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi iii. 41 The keelboatman became a deck hand, or a mate. 1941 F. L. Dorsey Master of Mississippi 129 Keelboatmen and ‘broadhorn’ pushers eyed it with suspicion. 1949 B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore ii. ii. 191 Besides madmen and devils the Mississippi River also bred giants—the keelboatmen whose acknowledged king was Mike Fink. < as lemmas |
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