boatmate

See also: boat mate

English

Alternative forms

• boat mate

Etymology

From boat +‎ -mate.

Noun

boatmate (plural boatmates)

1. Someone with whom one shares a boat, or with whom one works on a boat.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 579:

     "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.