watermanship

American  

[waw-ter-muhn-ship, wot-er-] / ˈwɔ tər mənˌʃɪp, ˈwɒt ər- /

noun

1. the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.

2. skill in rowing or boating.

---

Etymology

Origin of watermanship

First recorded in 1880–85; waterman + -ship

Example Sentences

It would simply come down to watermanship, and guts.

From Literature

Watermanship, as a technical term, may be said to consist in adapting oneself to circumstances and exigencies during the progress of a boat.

From Project Gutenberg

The art of ‘watermanship’ had not then reached its present pitch.

From Project Gutenberg

We have already spoken of the march of watermanship.

From Project Gutenberg

Those good judges who differ from him as aforesaid base their objections to his method chiefly on the ground that it requires rather a higher standard of watermanship to enable an oarsman so to govern his blade that he can immerse it more or less at will, and yet maintain the same outward action of body, only with more or less force employed, according to amount of blade immersed.

From Project Gutenberg