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boatmate en · NOUN

Etymology

From boat + -mate.

Meanings

  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. 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 579:

Forms

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boat mate alternative lexicographic
boatmates Number=Plur lexicographic