Meaning

3 senses
  1. Someone who travels by boat.

    Bootsfahrer

    someone who drives or rides in a boat

  2. Synonym of boatman, particularly its captain.

  3. A straw hat, very stiff, with a flat brim and crown.

    Kreissäge, steifer Strohhut

    канотье́kanotʹjé

    a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
straw hat:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
someone who travels by boat:
straw hat:

Origin

From Middle English botere; equivalent to boat + -er. The use of the term for a straw hat

From Middle English botere; equivalent to boat + -er. The use of the term for a straw hat stems from the fact that straw hats were the preferred head covering during sunny boat trips on canals and rivers.

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Forms

plural: boaters
Singularboater
Pluralboaters

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
boatmanleghornbasherskimmerPanamaparticularly its captain
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedboat
Derivedjetboater

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
boater — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto