What's the difference between boater and boatman?

Boater


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They came in all different price points and in all different styles: round elephants reminiscent of French cartoons from the 1960s, and strange pseudo-sexual shimmies, and with 1920s straw boater hats leading parades.
  • (2) As a result, none of the venues are fit for swimmers or boaters, she said.
  • (3) City authorities encased the river bed in concrete in the 1930s, turning it into a flood-control channel that was a byword for contamination and forbidden to boaters.
  • (4) It is more serious in patients type blue boaters and less frequent among patients type pink puffers.
  • (5) Boaters and swimmers have largely ignored the dropping water levels in a place where splashing in cold fresh water on 100-plus-degree summer days is a treat.
  • (6) You don’t have to be a boater to appreciate London’s navigable waterways but living like this has encouraged me to explore places along less well-trodden towpaths.
  • (7) The vision is for an "aquatic National Trust" galvanising the estimated 11 million Britons who regularly benefit from them – boaters, anglers, cyclists, runners, Sunday strollers and waterside property dwellers – to invest time and money to protecting them for generations to come.
  • (8) As they walked into the ballroom where Warren spoke on Friday, hundreds of supporters snatched plastic boater-style hats declaring that the wearer backed “Elizabeth Warren for President,” a campaign that does not yet exist.
  • (9) He brought along a pack of non-filter cigarettes, a wide-brimmed boater hat and a bomber jacket.
  • (10) At the beginning the suitors in their straw-boater finery dithered, ecstatic when Sharapova, dragging them into her vortex of suffering, would win a point, or save one, through the sheer force of her will, and then cooed with equal ardour for Bouchard, rising from their seats when she unleashed a terrifying forehand to scorch the lines.
  • (11) The author examined a group of 20 patients with the predominance of chronic bronchitis--blue boaters (average VC was 1.95 l, FEV1--0.81 l, PaO2 while breathing atmospheric air 52 mm Hg and 68 mm Hg after giving oxygen, PaCO2 47 and 51 mm Hg respectively) and 20 patients with the predominance of emphysema--pink puffers (average VC--2.30 l, FEV1--0.86 l, PaO2 while breathing atmospheric air 60 mm Hg and 70 mm Hg after giving oxygen, PaCO2 39 and 40 mm respectively).
  • (12) Swimmers, boaters, and motor vehicle occupants were most frequently represented.
  • (13) Organisations representing Britain's 33,000 boaters and three million anglers agree something has to be done.
  • (14) David Suchet, the actor and boater, sent a message of support, saying: "I am fortunate in my life to have travelled extensively and enjoyed many other rivers worldwide.
  • (15) Delegates (1,650 of them by midday) are mostly lower-to-middle class, middle-to-old-aged white people, hordes of elderly bald men with red faces and moustaches (a terrifying sight); kilts, straw boaters and striped blazers, women dressed elaborately in Ukip gold or purple, a few tattoos and eyebrow rings too, a smattering of posh and Paul Sykes, ex-Tory zillionaire developer and Nigel-backer.
  • (16) Most boaters canoe or kayak the route, though motorboats and sailboats can be used in some sections.

Boatman


Definition:

  • (n.) A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.
  • (n.) A boat bug. See Boat bug.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recalling how they competed together in regattas together when they first met, Bertelli has said of his wife: "She was the boatman."
  • (2) 6 Empty Room (C-Note, 2003) To date, Prince has yet to write a breakup album like Blood on the Tracks or Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’s The Boatman’s Call.
  • (3) The Hindus had known how to care for the waterways, the boatman admitted, and after they had left, the government had not been equal to the task.
  • (4) On reaching the Dee, visitors ring a ship's bell to alert a boatman and take what may well be the briefest ferry journey to any tiny island in Britain.
  • (5) We jumped into a boat and asked the boatman to take us closer to Qasr el-Nil bridge, which would bring us near Tahrir.
  • (6) As I floated through the waterways of the Old City, the boatman described how lovely it had been, in the days before what Kashmiris always call "the Troubles".
  • (7) They were criminals," said Maha Madu, a Timbuktu boatman, now in the Niger river town of Mopti.
  • (8) (1) An interesting style of acting was demonstrated on a stage of a Kyogen, a classic comedy of Japan, titled "Funawatashimuko", i.e., "A boatman and a bridgegroom in a boat".
  • (9) Antagonistic postures which move toward the opposite direction were displayed by a boatman who is pulling an oar and a passenger who is being moved by the rolling of a boat.

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