ˈboat-woman
[f. boat n. + woman.]
A woman who manages a boat.
| a 1843 Southey Com.-Pl. Bk. Ser. ii. 316 Perhaps Spenser remembered the portrait of Idilnesse when he so beautifully painted the wanton boatwoman. 1883 Harper's Mag. Oct. 674/2 The most famous boatwomen are the girls of the parish of Rättvik. |