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boatman Fur Trade, Hist. 
n. a voyageur, especially a man working with the boat brigades of the fur companies.
See also: voyageur
- 1816 (1818) Having procured two experienced boatmen, with a bark canoe, I ascended the St. Maurice. . . .
- 1898 (1957) Indians and halfbreeds make first rate Boatmen [on York Boats].
- 1956 (1957) Colin Robertson preferred Iroquois boatmen to any other. . . .
- 1816 (1818) Having procured two experienced boatmen, with a bark canoe, I ascended the St. Maurice. . . .