boatbuilder

[boht-bil-der]

noun

1. a person who builds boats.

Word History and Origins

Origin of boatbuilder¹

First recorded in 1670–80; boat + builder

Example Sentences

As the granddaughter of a boatbuilder and daughter of a fisherman, Brooke grew up very familiar with the water.

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This was thanks, in part, to the brilliance and expertise of the boatbuilder George Yeoman Pocock, who built his elegant rowing shells in an old Navy hangar.

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The Carlyle Group rolled Vigor into a new holding company that owns two other boatbuilders near Navy bases.

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And orders at one electric boatbuilder are backed up for almost three years.

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Legendary boatbuilder George Pocock housed his workshop in that Shell House, creating the boats that took the University of Washington to gold.

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