What does waterman mean?
Waterman means (obsolete) A seaman, a sailor..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete) A seaman, a sailor..
An elderly sheik shared this little ceremony with us, and afterwards benignly gave the waterman a coin and made him spurt scented water on his face and beard.
‘Here you are, sir,’ shouted a strange specimen of the human race, in a sackcloth coat, and apron of the same, who, with a brass label and number round his neck, looked as if he were catalogued in some collection of rarities. This was the waterman.
Use waterman when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Waterman means (obsolete) A seaman, a sailor..
Common synonyms include boater, boatman.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
An elderly sheik shared this little ceremony with us, and afterwards benignly gave the waterman a coin and made him spurt scented water on his face and beard.
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