[f. BOAT sb. + MAN.]

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  1.  A man who manages a boat.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VI. v. 41. This sorofull boitman.

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1514.  Fitzherb., Just. Peas (1538), 39. Enquere of botemen, and bargemen.

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1600.  C. Sutton, Disce Mori, xxix. (1838), 297. Do not as boatmen are wont, who row one way but look another.

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1855.  Singleton, Virgil, II. 105. The boatman from the Stygian wave.

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1871.  Morley, Voltaire (1886), 78. Meeting a boatman one day on the Thames.

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  2.  = BOAT-FLY.

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1841.  E. Newman, Hist. Insects, 106. The boatman dives under the water, occasionally coming to the surface for a supply of air. Ibid., 267. Water-boatmen or Notonectites.

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