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BOATMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who drives or rides in a boat
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("boatman" is a kind of...):
worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boatman"):
canoeist; paddler (someone paddling a canoe)
ferryman (a man who operates a ferry)
gondolier; gondoliere (a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola)
oarsman; rower (someone who rows a boat)
punter (someone who propels a boat with a pole)
Derivation:
boatmanship (skill in handling boats)
Context examples:
I inquired about my aunt among the boatmen first, and received various answers.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Coming near the beach, I saw, not only the boatmen, but half the people of the town, lurking behind buildings; some, now and then braving the fury of the storm to look away to sea, and blown sheer out of their course in trying to get zigzag back.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mr. James was far from pleased to find out, once, that she had told the children she was a boatman's daughter, and that in her own country, long ago, she had roamed about the beach, like them.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Of the clergyman and clerk appearing; of a few boatmen and some other people strolling in; of an ancient mariner behind me, strongly flavouring the church with rum; of the service beginning in a deep voice, and our all being very attentive.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mrs. Steerforth speaking to me about my intention of going down into Suffolk, I said at hazard how glad I should be, if Steerforth would only go there with me; and explaining to him that I was going to see my old nurse, and Mr. Peggotty's family, I reminded him of the boatman whom he had seen at school.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“I don't, indeed, my dear boy,” he returned; “but I mean to say that they are managed and decided by the same set of people, down in that same Doctors' Commons. You shall go there one day, and find them blundering through half the nautical terms in Young's Dictionary, apropos of the “Nancy” having run down the “Sarah Jane”, or Mr. Peggotty and the Yarmouth boatmen having put off in a gale of wind with an anchor and cable to the “Nelson”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
