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boatman

[ boht-muhn ]

noun

plural boatmen.
  1. a person skilled in the use of small craft.
  2. a person who sells, rents, or works on boats.


boatman

/ ˈ²úəʊ³Ù³¾É™²Ô /

noun

  1. a man who works on, hires out, repairs, or operates a boat or boats
  2. short for water boatman
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of boatman1

First recorded in 1505–15; boat + -man
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Oo Oo had to retire from his job as a boatman when he suffered a stroke which left him partially paralysed.

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Many worked as labourers on farms or at the local iron works with others having jobs including as laundry women, boatmen - and one was a local postman.

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Despite his pleas, the boatman refused to allow Fayaz to bring the baby's body with them.

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"We've got damselflies and dragonflies, little water boatmen, whirligig beetles, water scorpions and because of all of them, we get all the birds that feed off them," he says.

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The boatman frowned as he rowed up to the shore.

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