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单词 boatman
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boatman

(boʊtmən)
Word forms: plural boatmen
countable noun
A boatman is a man who is paid by people to take them across an area of water in a small boat, or a man who hiresboats out to them for a short time.

boatman in British English

(ˈbəʊtmən)
nounWord forms: plural -men
1. 
a man who works on, hires out, repairs, or operates a boat or boats
2.  short for water boatman

boatman in American English

(ˈboʊtmən)
nounWord forms: plural ˈboatmen (ˈboʊtmən)
a person skilled in the operation of boats
Derived forms
boatmanship (ˈboatmanˌship)
noun

Examples of 'boatman' in a sentence
boatman

He was a boatman, like her brother and father, a Scillonian, respected by the other men on the quay and on the fishing boats.
Lunnon-Wood, Mike LET NOT THE DEEP (2002)
Which of them would have believed that a mere boatman could infiltrate their world?
Val McDermid THE LAST TEMPTATION (2002)
`I suppose you heard about the body brought in by a boatman ?
Curzon, Clare THE QUEST FOR K (2002)
The boatman gave him a critical look, wondering no doubt why we employed such a dirty fellow.
Elizabeth Peters LORD OF THE SILENT (2002)
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