Boatmanship: alternatives and connections

Executive; acting; managing affairs.

Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, acquired by experience, study, or observation; knack; as, a man has the…

A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing.

An advice boat, or dispatch boat.

The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a saili…

A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers.

Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat,…

An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a littl…

The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.

The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following.

The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in…

Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, ri…

Readiness in the use or control of the mental powers; quickness and skill in managing any complicated or difficult affair; adroitness.

Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said o…

Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of m…