watermanship
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Origin of watermanship
Example Sentences
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So the people of the Aire valley crossed it with the Otter Hound, making it keen-scented and giving it better watermanship.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would simply come down to watermanship, and guts.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Sculling needs more precision and more watermanship than rowing.
From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.
Their crews showed a degree of watermanship which in those days University oarsmen despaired of attaining to.
From Rowing by Lehmann, Rudolf Chambers
Now comes a bit of watermanship and management of the limbs which require special attention, and which few oarsmen, even in these days of improved sliding, carry out to exact perfection.
From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.
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