Definitions

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  • noun A person involved in boatbuilding; one who builds boats.

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  • noun a person who builds boats

Etymologies

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boat +‎ builder

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Examples

  • I looked at it again, but even after calling boatbuilder Richard Uttley for advice I still couldn’t get the bolts to shift.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • I looked at it again, but even after calling boatbuilder Richard Uttley for advice I still couldn’t get the bolts to shift.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • Instead, you took a truly odd direction, cuz I had prefaced my question “as a boatbuilder”.

    Matthew Yglesias » Wonks and Teachers 2009

  • Speaking as someone with multiple degrees in physics and mathematics to someone who is a “boatbuilder”, this is just too, too precious. joe from Lowell Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Wonks and Teachers 2009

  • Because I happened to look over at the table next to me and saw a copy of Imago Mundi, the International Journal of the History of Cartography sitting at a nice gentleman's table, and proceeded to have a long conversation with a former boatbuilder turned graduate student in cartography, finishing his dissertation on commercial Dutch maps of the 18th century.

    I Love the Smell of Maps in the Morning yuki_onna 2010

  • Instead, you took a truly odd direction, cuz I had prefaced my question “as a boatbuilder”.

    Matthew Yglesias » Wonks and Teachers 2009

  • Bloomfield, Mary Ann, née Church: Bloomfield's wife, daughter of a boatbuilder of Woolwich and mother of five children.

    Index of People 2009

  • He has no problem with credentialism when he is a “boatbuilder” talking to someone on the intertubz.

    Matthew Yglesias » Wonks and Teachers 2009

  • Church, Joseph: Bloomfield's father-in-law, a boatbuilder employed at the Royal Naval yard in Woolwich.

    Index of People 2009

  • In fact, “as a boatbuilder” was just thrown in at random, for absolutely no reason at all.

    Matthew Yglesias » Wonks and Teachers 2009

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