boatman
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The Bumps is closer to cheese-rolling than rowing, the Peterhouse boatman explained in a pep talk to the squad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 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
Whenever he dropped a toy in the Nile, he said, a passing boatman would rescue it.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
The boatman plied his homemade nets not far from shore and brought in fat bream and tiger fish.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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
"We've got damselflies and dragonflies, little water boatmen, whirligig beetles, water scorpions and because of all of them, we get all the birds that feed off them," he says.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 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 course is extremely tortuous...twisting and turning in every direction. The boatmen have some strenuous times in getting the boat around some of the curves,” Cherrie wrote in his diary.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
