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ˈboater
[f. boat v. + -er1.]
1. One who rows or manages a boat:
a. a canal-boat man;
b. one who goes a boating for pleasure. rare.
1605Ayr Session Records 14 Jan., Johne Boyd, boater and his wyfe. 1883Athenæum 22 Dec. 822/1 A Thames-side subject, with boaters loitering at the bank. 1884G. Smith in Pall Mall G. 8 Apr. 11/2 Interfering with the boaters and their earnings.
2. A stiff straw hat with a flat crown and brim, originally one suitable to wear when boating. Also boater straw.
1896River 8 Aug. 5/1 The news has gone forth from one end of Wood-street to the other that the Prince of Wales has purchased a ‘boater’, and will wear it..for the rest of the summer. 1905Daily Chron. 2 June 4/7 In a shop on Ludgate-hill, there are placards announcing ‘straw boaters’. 1910H. G. Wells Mr. Polly vii. 151 Boater straws, imitation Panamas, [etc.]. 1926Blackw. Mag. June 735/1 That horrible and obsolete form of head gear..known as a ‘boater’. 1963C. Mackenzie My Life & Times II. 120 The word ‘boater’ was never used, and did not exist outside the catalogue of a firm like Ponting's... ‘Boater’ was intended to suggest to maidservants that they were as familiar with Maidenhead as Gaiety girls. |