Examples of boatman

• You can hire a boatman to take you in a sort of gondola to the morning market.

• The canal is already buzzing with activity; boatmen have begun their long day.

• In mythology, Charon was the boatman of the River Styx.

• In it, the boatman sings to the river as someone singing to a maiden.

• A backswimmer, a water measurer, a water boatman and a predaceous diving beetle were used as larval predators, and a pholcid spider as adult predator.

• For this reason, exchangees often left stealthily at night, after making prior arrangements with fixers, boatmen and border guards who demanded much money.

• The gentle song of the boatman in the poem of that title reveals pidgin's poetic resourcefulness through its sheer lyricism and beauty of form.

• According to colonial investigators, civilian support derived primarily from the most destitute inhabitants of the province: petty criminals, river boatmen and day-laborers.