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  • noun A manufacturer of boats.

Etymologies

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boat +‎ maker

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Examples

  • In Italy, the private equity firm Candover lost its entire £54m equity investment in Ferretti when in March last year the Italian boatmaker breached its loan covenants and lenders seized control of the business.

    Hope spotted on the horizon for Britain's boating industry 2010

  • The deal was concluded after the boatmaker was forced to inject £6.8m into a key distributor, F&M Sales Group, which pushed the group into a 9.1m loss for the year to July 31, 2009.

    Hope spotted on the horizon for Britain's boating industry 2010

  • It lays in wait, like a raw sloop fresh from the boatmaker, still clean, ropes taught, no cannon shot, about to be splashed into the foaming sea.

    slow, yet kafkaesque 2005

  • It lays in wait, like a raw sloop fresh from the boatmaker, still clean, ropes taught, no cannon shot, about to be splashed into the foaming sea.

    alive, she cried 2005

  • Down where the _nipa_ jungle thickens, fishing _bancas_ are drawn up on the shore; and near by in a cocoanut-grove the old boatmaker lives.

    The Great White Tribe in Filipinia 1914

  • Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Strategic Value Partners LLC will also own 12.5 percent stakes in the Forli, Italy-based boatmaker.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2012

  • They gone, comes Rayner, the boatmaker, about some business, and brings a piece of plate with him, which I refused to take of him, thinking indeed that the poor man hath no reason nor encouragement from our dealings with him to give any of us any presents.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1665 Pepys, Samuel 1665

  • A deal with the Springfield, Miss., boatmaker was struck last fall.

    London Free Press 2010

  • Bryan Burns, presdident of Crestliner, said the storied boatmaker in Little Falls will continue building high-quality craft, but not in Little Falls.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • Bryan Burns, presdident of Crestliner, said the storied boatmaker in Little Falls will continue building high-quality craft, but not in Little Falls.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

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