boatmate

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noun

Someone with whom one shares a boat, or with whom one works on a boat.

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Meanings

nounboatmate (plural boatmates)

plural boatmates · alternative boat mate

  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

Origin

From boat + -mate.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

boatmate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boatmate

MLA

“boatmate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boatmate. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boatmate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boatmate.

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