What's the difference between boatman and boatmen?
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.
Boatmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Boatman
Example Sentences:
(1) In 21 352 person-years 383 deaths were observed among sea pilots compared with 379.3 expected (SMR = 101;95% CI between 99 and 112) and in 12,127 person-years the observed number of deaths among boatmen was 136, expected 135.9 (SMR = 100) when Swedish men were used as a reference population.
(2) According to local boatmen, the Rothschilds use this military-style craft to whisk their guests at a speed of 50 knots directly from the airport to a corner of north-east Corfu where the secluded coves and remote luxury villas have become a discreet playground for the rich and powerful to mix business and pleasure.
(3) In respect of occupational categories, farmers and farm labourers, with prevalence rates of 50.6% and 41.6%, respectivelx, bear the brunt of the infection, since they constitute 48% of the population, although fishermen (60.4%) and boatmen (52.0%) have higher infection rates.Differences in bilharziasis rates can also be related to differences in religion, educational attainment and domestic habits (swimming, washing clothes, utensils and cattle) according to the opportunity provided for contact with polluted water.
(4) During the dry season from October to May, boatmen in Rakhine state would take Rohingya out to large vessels waiting at sea, according to local accounts.
(5) As regard to season differences, the infected buffaloes were the main reservoirs during dry seasons, especially from March to May, whereas the mobile nonnatives including fishermen and boatmen were the main infectious sources during flood seasons from June to October.
(6) Faysal Mihoub, 35, lifeguard Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Chris Stephen Lifeguard Faysal Mihoub is known as the joker of the little community of guards and boatmen who work the beach around the Marhaba.
(7) A cohort of 1455 sea pilots and boatmen employed after 1921 was established.
(8) For ischaemic heart disease (IHD) (ICD-8: 410-414) the SMR was equal to 96 (obs = 131, exp = 137.2) for sea pilots and 91 (obs = 44, exp = 48.4) for boatmen.
(9) Guards at the institute, drivers and boatmen were the unsung heroes in this enterprise.
(10) Chlorothalonil was initially accumulated by blue mussels to concentrations approximately ten times greater than exposure concentrations; however, tissue concentrations returned to the same level as exposure concentrations within 96 h. Spraying of ponds resulted in mortality of caged water boatmen (Sigara alternata) and threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) which could be related to chlorothalonil exposure, however, caddisfly larvae (Limnephilus sp.