What is "boatmen"

Usage examples of "boatmen".

And Glizzee spice was nothing but ground strangey bone, though the boatmen didn’t tell everyone that.

A mountainous place, where the falls come over the cliffs into World River, and the ships have to tie up behind great shattered rocks along the sheer walls and the boatmen climb steep, twisty stairs to reach the towns above.

Day succeeded day, river, pier, town, boatmen leaving and new ones coming aboard.

Thrasne had given her a room in the owner-house with a comfortable bunk, a basket for the child, Lila, and a chest full of simple clothing such as the boatmen wore.

The boatmen stopped to talk with her, never touching her, regarding her half with affection, half with superstitious awe.

Most boatmen were garrulous sorts, full of tales and exaggerations, but the crew of the Gift was of a different kind.

No children to roll about the owner-house floor and learn to be boatmen in their turn.

Thrasne will need his own boatmen, and we cannot expect to live on the deck if there is storm or rough weather.

Once well away, the new boatmen—sailors they called themselves—put up the bright, unstained sails and the boat moved on its own, cross-current, the wind pushing at it from up mid-River and yet somehow moving it across.

They think it grows somewhere on an island, and that’s why the boatmen have it rather than some land-bound peddler.

Eenzie the Clown juggled hard melon and eggs on the main deck, discovering the eggs in the ears of the boatmen and losing them again down the backs of their trousers.

Obers-rom and the other boatmen were busy tying everything down that could be tied down and stowing everything else in the lockers and holds.

Sometimes strangeys picked up boatmen who had fallen overboard and returned them to their boats.

The longest he could recall having traveled before without coming to land was a week or two, and that had been when sickness had struck a section of towns near Vobil-dil-go and all the boatmen had been warned away.

He set his mind to wake himself early, a skill most boatmen had, and rose in the mist before the sun.