Meanings
- 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 112 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 297Again, 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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