[f. BOAT sb. + WOMAN.] A woman who manages a boat.
a. 1843. Southey, Comm.-pl. Bk., Ser. II. 316. Perhaps Spenser remembered the portrait of Idilnesse when he so beautifully painted the wanton boatwoman.
1883. F. D. Millet, in Harper’s Mag., Oct., 674/2. The most famous boatwomen are the girls of the parish of Rättvik.
