Definitions for boatman

boatman boat·man

Spelling: [boht-muh n]
IPA: /ˈboʊt mən/

Boatman is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in boatman (aabmnot).

Definitions for boatman

noun

  1. a person skilled in the use of small craft.
  2. a person who sells, rents, or works on boats.

Origin of boatman

First recorded in 1505-15; boat + -man

Examples for boatman

I paid six florins in gold to the boatman who took me from Bamberg to Frankfurt.

No boatman fears a Marlin as he does the true broadbill swordfish.

And I have reached a time in my experience of fishing where I want that kind of a boatman.

His voice had suddenly become cold, and he signed to his boatman.

This brought language from my boatman—well, to say the least, quite disrespectable.

He stood ready to receive and deliver it to the boatman who had landed below.

But, if you will please to see if my boatman is there, I shall be obliged to you.'

Such is the boatman's story, as related in the Diarium of Burchard.

Is the soul related to the body as sight to the eye, or as the boatman to his boat?

Nodding to the boatman, "The Steen landing—quickly," he said in French.

Word Value for boatman
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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