boatbearer

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noun

A clergyman who carries the incense before it is lit.

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Meanings

nounboatbearer (plural boatbearers)

plural boatbearers

  1. A clergyman who carries the incense before it is lit.

    He remembered the summer evening he had been there to be dressed as a boatbearer, the evening of the procession to the little altar in the wood.

    1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC

Origin

From boat + bearer.

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APA

boatbearer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boatbearer

MLA

“boatbearer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boatbearer. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boatbearer,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boatbearer.

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