riverfaring

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adjective

Related to travel or transportation on rivers.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectiveriverfaring (not comparable)
  1. not comparableRelated to travel or transportation on rivers.

    The patriarch of the church hired seamen, maintained a commercial fleet and a dockyard, and regulated riverfaring and seafaring laws.

    2006, Hassan S. Khalilieh, Admiralty and maritime laws in the Mediterranean Sea (ca. 800-1050), Brill, page 11
    2 more examples

    Since they had passed the blockade there had not been a single ship going northward towards Waters End. News of the war traveled fast among riverfaring crews, …

    2017, Jesper Schmidt, Desolation, Fantasy Publishing, page 297

    Again, the whole riverfaring population are proficient at crossing on inflated skins; to prevent this, the supervision of an army would be insufficient.

    1859, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, volume 18, page 119
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