What's the difference between boatman and boatsman?

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.

Boatsman


Definition:

  • (n.) A boatman.

Example Sentences:

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