Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A boatswain.
- noun A boatman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic A boatman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
boatman .
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Examples
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For a time, the red-maned warrior did journey through Hades at the side of the boatsman Charon.
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A boatsman was nearby and plucked the toddler out of the drink, whereupon it was hustled off to Da Ivano restaurant and dried off.
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A boatsman was nearby and plucked the toddler out of the drink, whereupon it was hustled off to Da Ivano restaurant and dried off.
Veniceblog: 2005
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They gave us a second-class boatsman rating since we understood surf conditions.
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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They gave us a second-class boatsman rating since we understood surf conditions.
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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One satellite phone, three journalists and a local boatsman adrift on a piranha infested fast-moving river headed straight for the river's mouth and the angry Atlantic Ocean beyond.
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They gave us a second-class boatsman rating since we understood surf conditions.
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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They gave us a second-class boatsman rating since we understood surf conditions.
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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The first, a commoner, had slain a boatsman from Schendi.
Explorers Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980
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Italy to represent St. Julian as a sportsman with a hawk on his hand; and in France, as a boatsman, in a barge; and the postilions and bargemen keep his feast, as of their principal patron.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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