boatman
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According to legend, it took rough and rugged characters to tame the early American frontier: men like Daniel Boone, the trailblazer, or Mike Fink, the brawling river boatman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Oo Oo had to retire from his job as a boatman when he suffered a stroke which left him partially paralysed.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025
"I'm an old boatman, I have experienced another four floods in the village. This was the worst," he told media.
From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2023
Levin Dukes, a boatman, built the house and was its first occupant.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
Our boatman was either less skillful than Nick's, or less favored by the Fates.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Certainly the good Samaritans must have known the two boatmen were not going to be put on trial, owing to lack of evidence.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025
Many worked as labourers on farms or at the local iron works with others having jobs including as laundry women, boatmen - and one was a local postman.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
Just before the accident, onlookers from the river bank were shouting at the boatmen to navigate carefully.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
What takes me by surprise is the warmth of the boatmen, Italian American, old, kind, used to Hindu families carrying out the ritual of scattering ashes on water.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2022
The men who commanded them were the bravest and most reckless boatmen in the Navy.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
