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What is a waterman?

What is a waterman? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) A seaman, a sailor.
  2. A man who lives or works on the water; a boatman.
  3. Someone who distributes or supplies water for a living; a water-carrier.
  4. (dated) Specifically, an attendant on cab stands who supplies water to the horses.
  5. (surfing) A man skilled in multiple aquatic sports disciplines, such as surfing, bodysurfing, undersea diving, canoe paddling, fishing, etc.
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Examples
London picture dealer Offer waterman clinched deals for a total of six British contemporary paintings and a Modernist sculpture.
That wouldn't be far for waterman to go after 'em, but do you think he'd do it?
As a waterman, and later as a lock-keeper, he has alternative, and distinctly illegitimate, sources of income which are clearly not related to honest sweat.
This I learned from a waterman at the quays, who had helped to load their goods.
The young Arthur befriended a waterman who took fresh water to the incoming ships.
He was the son of a London boatbuilder and waterman who used to ferry J. M. W. Turner across the Thames.

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