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WATERMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does waterman mean?
• WATERMAN (noun)
The noun WATERMAN has 1 sense:
1. someone who drives or rides in a boat
Familiarity information: WATERMAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who drives or rides in a boat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("waterman" is a kind of...):
worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waterman"):
canoeist; paddler (someone paddling a canoe)
ferryman (a man who operates a ferry)
gondolier; gondoliere (a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola)
oarsman; rower (someone who rows a boat)
punter (someone who propels a boat with a pole)
Context examples
Mealy's father was a waterman, who had the additional distinction of being a fireman, and was engaged as such at one of the large theatres; where some young relation of Mealy's—I think his little sister—did Imps in the Pantomimes.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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