lifeboatman

English

Etymology

From lifeboat +‎ -man.

Noun

lifeboatman (plural lifeboatmen)

  1. A man who crews a lifeboat.
    • 1940 December, “The Spurn Head Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 655, photo caption:
      Sail-propelled trolley used by lifeboatmen for traversing the Spurn Head Railway. This view was taken in March, 1930
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 322, about Port Eynon:
      In a corner of the churchyard, where old headstones mark the graves of many mariners, is a striking white statue of a lifeboatman, erected as a memorial to three members of the local lifeboat crew who lost their lives in 1916 while trying to reach a ship in distress.

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