Boatmate

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone with whom one shares a boat, or with whom one works on a boat.

    ""It was of no use for him to prate about injustice." He smiled around and then closed up his mouth for the rest of the voyage, leaving his boat-mates with much to think about."

Example

More examples

""It was of no use for him to prate about injustice." He smiled around and then closed up his mouth for the rest of the voyage, leaving his boat-mates with much to think about."

Etymology

From boat + -mate.

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