keelboat

• Существительное, обозначающее речное судно с мелкой осадкой и килем, но без парусов, используемое для перевозки грузов и перемещаемое с помощью гребли, шестов или буксировки.

A noun referring to a river boat with a shallow draught and a keel but no sails, used to carry freight and moved by rowing, punting, or towing.

1. River freight boatC1formalamerican

   A shallow-draft river boat with a keel but no sails, used for carrying freight and moved by rowing, punting, or towing.

   Речное грузовое судно

   • The pioneers used a keelboat to transport goods down the Ohio River.
   • Keelboats were essential for trade before the era of steamboats.
   • The crew poled the keelboat upstream against the current.

   Synonymskeel