boatie

British  

/ ˈbəʊtɪ /

noun

1. informal a boating enthusiast

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Example Sentences

Not for you, my little boatie, ����Is the wide and weary sea; You're too slender, and too tender, ��������You must bide with me.

From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry

Eh, but she swims fine, and she's gotten hold of the wee boatie wi' the laddie's dinner on it.

From The Northern Iron by Birmingham, George A.

Then let us sing 'The boatie rows,' To tell of her fair fame, Who honour on the race bestows— Grace Darling is her name.

From Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands by Hope, Eva

Father's at the deep-sea trawling, In the darkness, rowing, hauling, While the hungry winds are calling,— ����God protect him, little boatie, ��������Bring him safely home!

From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry

"Weel may yon boatie row, or my craig'll have to thole a raxing."

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis