keelboatman
noun
a member of the crew of a keelboat.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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It had been the rule of the keelboatmen and they had carried it up and down the waterways, from New Orleans to the upper Mississippi and from Pittsburg to the Rockies.
From Bring Me His Ears by Mulford, Clarence E.