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Bowman vs Bowsman - What's the difference?

bowman | bowsman |

As a proper noun bowman

is .

As a noun bowsman is

(nautical) a sailor who works in the bow of a vessel.

bowman

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(bowmen)
  • (archery) An archer.
  • * Bible, Jer. iv. 29
    • The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen .
    Derived terms
    * bowman's root

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (bowmen)
  • (nautical) The person, in a team or among oarsmen, positioned nearest the bow.

    • bowsman

    English

    Noun

    (bowsmen)
  • (nautical) A sailor who works in the bow of a vessel.
    • 1851 , , Moby Dick , Chapter 72: “Being the savage's bowsman , that is, the person who pulled the bow-oar in his boat (the second one from forward), it was my cheerful duty to attend upon him while taking that hard-scrabble scramble upon the dead whale's back."