waterman

plural watermen

1. obsoleteA seaman, a sailor.
2. A man who lives or works on the water; a boatman.
3. Someone who distributes or supplies water for a living; a water-carrier.

   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.

   1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 105

4. datedSpecifically, an attendant on cab stands who supplies water to the horses.

   ‘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.

   1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 2

5. hobbiesA man skilled in multiple aquatic sports disciplines, such as surfing, bodysurfing, undersea diving, canoe paddling, fishing, etc.

plural Watermans

1. countableuncountableAn occupational surname.
2. A place in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableA village in DeKalb County, Illinois.
   2. countableuncountableA ghost town in Wheeler County, Oregon.
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Kitsap County, Washington.