Usage examples (32)

• Denwood Long, a troubled slave catcher and eastern shore waterman, is coaxed out of retirement to break "The Code" and track down Liz.
• When this was obtained, he would call a waterman, throw him a crown, and tell him to get out of his wherry as fast as he could.
• "Then we had better go ourselves, Tom," said I, and we went forward to call the waterman, who was lying on his oars close to the frigate.
• "waterman" is labouring at the oar, rowing him across a river.