The word "boatman" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who operates a boat, such as a tour guide on a river cruise. For example, "The boatman was knowledgeable and friendly, and he showed us many interesting sights along the river."
In the morning, Antonio the boatman will take you off fishing for trout.
Until then, he was a farmer; now he is a boatman, ferrying passengers over his fields.
The electric drive being tested there could represent the next leap forward in ship design, as significant a technological shift as the one from sail to steam power in the 19th century.Even since the first intrepid boatman thought to pick up a piece of wood to paddle against the current, boat propulsion has been a terribly mechanical affair.
One evening he nearly struck a boatman, whose vessel shot out unexpectedly from under the bridge.
Even the most minor characters a boatman on the river, say, retailing common gossip about Anne Boleyn's sex life have a Shakespearean vigour.
Over a long career he twice bowled out W.G. Grace and also caught 935 salmon, including a dozen of over 50lb.Two young sons of a Norwegian boatman were playing at fishing, one summer's day in 1923, in a pool that was known to hold big fish on Norway's River Vefsen.
His new novel is full of haunting images: the stagnant puddles on the faded tiles of a once-grand, now ruined Roman villa; a wounded bat found in a cave, a hole through its ribs "as though someone had taken a bite from a crisp apple", to the recurring figure of the boatman who bookends this weird, compelling tale.
The croc may be thinking of its lunch; it may be yawning, as the aboriginal boatman suggests.
A medieval innkeeper, for example, often offered the only lodging in town; a boatman could cross only with the king's writ.
With only one vessel in town, a boatman was generally not allowed to charge a butcher more than a carpenter to move goods.
Even this prototype's name has been kept under wraps until now.The Charon, named for the boatman of Hades in Greek mythology, looks like a truncated Apollo lunar module (see picture).
