river-man

Judging by a number of boats -- both motor and row boats -- tied to his landing, Mr. Wolverton was an enthusiastic river-man.

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

"I used to think if I could ever be in that young fellow's place, I would be the biggest man on earth," remarked a veteran river-man.

Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas Various

But when Caleb had explained the main errand upon which they had come, after a long, keen scrutiny of the boy's face, the burly river-man led the way, without a word, to a wheezing old two-wheeler in the piling yard.

Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans

At the Libyan shore Kenkenes gave his bari into the hands of a river-man and by a liberal fee purchased its security from confiscation.

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

The derivation of the above tribal designations leads us to the opinion that the word _Manóbo_ means by derivation a "river-man," and not a

The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

Again she felt his arm harden threateningly under her startled clasp as a red-headed and very drunk river-man lurched out of

Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans

He wondered whether the current would swing it clear; and now watched it with interest since he had once heard a river-man declare that anything that surrendered itself completely to a current would clear obstructions.

A Mating in the Wilds Ottwell Binns

Another old river-man remembers how, one day, at the association, they were talking of presence of mind in an accident, when Pilot Clemens said:

The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916

No. Wal, I'm woodsman, river-man; I ain't dam 'stampeder.

The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

Meanwhile every foot of the rapid offered a fascinating study to the river-man.

The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] Hulbert Footner 1911