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Boatman

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. One who works on, deals with, or operates boats.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. a man in charge of a small boat

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.

n. A boat bug. See Boat bug.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A man who manages or is employed on a boat; a rower of a boat.

n. A hemipterous insect of the family Corisidœ and genus Notonecta.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. someone who drives or rides in a boat

Word Usage

"On our way back, via the high ridge to the west, through Langton Matravers and Kingston, we began to understand why Thomas Hardy called Swanage a town "where everybody who was not a boatman was a quarrier"."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

worker

Variant

boat bug

Hyponym

oarsman paddler ferryman gondolier gondoliere rower punter canoeist

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

boatsman boater rower sculler barcarole waterman wherryman dandi keelman lighterman

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

fisherman trapper ferryman