boatmate

noun

boatmate

noun

Etymology From 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:

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