Sentence examples for a waterman. from inspiring English sources

"He was as good a waterman as I have known".

Having grown up in Hawaii, I have the utmost respect for Laird as a waterman.

"You have to understand what it means to be a waterman," he added.

"Rowing, or sculling, is the traditional skill of a waterman and it is still considered as our sport," he says.

What exactly did a waterman do? A. The Naval Encyclopedia, published in Philadelphia in 1881, defines a waterman as "a man who plies for hire on the water; a boatman".

Burke, who was hearing impaired from infancy, worked on the River Thames as a waterman before beginning his boxing career.

This was when rules were formulated for cricket, horse racing and boxing — the first rules of boxing, in fact, were drawn up by an early winner of the Doggett's race, a waterman-turned-prizefighter named Jack Broughton.

Annapolis has primarily been a yachting/Navy community, but Eastport across the channel identifies as a Watermen's neighborhood, and this Maritime Museum highlights that industry.

The Light Blues rowed against a London Rowing Club eight in the buildup while the Dark Blues took on a watermen eight and a Kingston eight during their preparations.

These results were analyzed in the context of chromosome positions, applying a Waterman-Eggert-like alignment algorithm [ 98] to ordered gene lists.

A new apprentice enters into a five-year agreement with the Company of Watermen and Lightermen (CWL) and is bound to a master, who must be a licensed waterman and lighterman or operator of a working vessel.