BOATMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boatman mean? 

• BOATMAN (noun)
  The noun BOATMAN has 1 sense:

1. someone who drives or rides in a boat

  Familiarity information: BOATMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOATMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who drives or rides in a boat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

boater; boatman; waterman

Hypernyms ("boatman" is a kind of...):

worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boatman"):

canoeist; paddler (someone paddling a canoe)

ferryman (a man who operates a ferry)

gondolier; gondoliere (a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola)

oarsman; rower (someone who rows a boat)

punter (someone who propels a boat with a pole)

Derivation:

boatmanship (skill in handling boats)

 Context examples 

Or, she may have had assistance from the boatmen, and the boatmen's wives and children.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

By this time the report of the accident had spread among the workmen and boatmen about the Cobb, and many were collected near them, to be useful if wanted, at any rate, to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, nay, two dead young ladies, for it proved twice as fine as the first report.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

By the courtesy of the chief boatman, I was, as your correspondent, permitted to climb on deck, and was one of a small group who saw the dead seaman whilst actually lashed to the wheel.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A half-dressed boatman, standing next me, pointed with his bare arm (a tattoo'd arrow on it, pointing in the same direction) to the left.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The ship had struck once, the same boatman hoarsely said in my ear, and then lifted in and struck again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Steerforth, who was in great spirits, had been strolling about the beach before I was up, and had made acquaintance, he said, with half the boatmen in the place.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Barkis's the carrier's wife—Peggotty's the boatman's sister—she had something to do with your family? She was in service there, sure?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

These are two Yarmouth boatmen—very kind, good people—who are relations of my nurse, and have come from Gravesend to see me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“It's the right sort of a house for such a thorough-built boatman.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“You're right, young gen'l'm'n! Mas'r Davy bor', gen'l'm'n's right. A thorough-built boatman! Hor, hor! That's what he is, too!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)