boatmate

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

boat +‎ -mate

Noun[edit]

boatmate (plural boatmates)

  1. Someone with whom one shares a boat, or with whom one works on a boat.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 579:
      "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.
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