boatsmanship
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of boatsmanship
First recorded in 1805–15; boats(man) + -manship
Example Sentences
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You get the Boy Scout motto and woodsmanship from your scout leader.
From Salon • Sep. 22, 2018
In addition to teaching them about woodsmanship and the way of the whitetail, he emphasizes making a clean kill shot and gun safety.
From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2016
I�m not claiming they rise to the postgraduate level of woodsmanship.
From Time Magazine Archive
She learned woodsmanship, fishing and baby-alligator trapping from her stepfather, Jack Hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their skill at woodsmanship might be undoubted, but the intermittent character of their work precluded any development of individual type, like the rivermen and shanty boys of the vanished North.
From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward
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