River vs Riverman - What's the difference?
river | riverman |
A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, ending at an ocean or in an inland sea.
* 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
(poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
(poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
A man who lives or works on a river.
*{{quote-book, year=1913, author=Harry Lincoln Sayler, title=On the Edge of the Arctic, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It was curious to note the skill with which the veteran riverman allowed the current to carry his boats on their way, and the ease with which they were finally drawn in to the bank opposite the freight cars. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Emerson Hough, title=The Young Alaskans on the Missouri, chapter=, edition=
, passage=At last they lay alongside a little landing to which a houseboat was moored, occupied by a riverman whom Uncle Dick seemed to know. }}
As a proper noun river
is .As a noun riverman is
a man who lives or works on a river.river
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from .Noun
(en noun)- By the side of the river' he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the ' river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers , washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}
Derived terms
* cry someone a river * riverbank * riverbed * river basin * river bed * river birch * river blindness * riverboat/river boat * river bottom * river boulder * river dolphin * river duck * riverfront * river hog * river horse * riverine * river lamprey * river limper * river mouth * river otter * river pear * river prawn * river runner * river shad * riverside * riverward * riverway * sell down the river * submarine river * up the river * (river)See also
*Verb
(en verb)- Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.
Etymology 2
References
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* ----riverman
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