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

/ ˈbəʊtmən /

noun

1. a man who works on, hires out, repairs, or operates a boat or boats

2. short for water boatman

Word History and Origins

Origin of boatman¹

First recorded in 1505–15; boat + -man

Example Sentences

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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