boatmanshipn.
/ˈbəʊtmənʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈboʊtmənˌʃɪp/ The art of piloting or operating a boat; a person's skill in this art.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > [noun] > art or science of
ship-craft1398
shipman-craft1418
marinage1511
marinership1542
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watercraft1566
shipmastery1593
marinary1684
sea-craft1727
seamanship1766
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boatmanship1812
sailorship1820
watermanship1830
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1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 56 What skill in boatmanship!
1865 G. MacDonald Alec Forbes II. viii. 74 They greatly improved his boatmanship.
1880 R. L. Stevenson Let. May (1899) I. iv. 203 Only Charon, and his rough boatmanship, I somewhat fear.
1913 Boys' Life Mar. 4/2 Robinson noticed that Dr. Carter deferred to Sheldon's boatmanship and learned that handling a skiff in rushing water is an art.
1960 J. Morris World of Venice xii. 144 Boats, boatmanship and boatlore are half the fascination of Venice.
2004 Field Sept. 107/1 These first steps in boatmanship proved useful a decade later when four of us bought a sailing boat at Cambridge.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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