My great grandfather was but a waterman, looking one way and rowing another

Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progre , i. 2. One who carries or distributes water; spe cifically, a person who waits at a cab-stand for the purpose of supplying the horses with water, calling the cabmen when they are absent, etc. [Eng.] -Waterman's knot ( naut .), a form of knot used to bend a rope about a post or bollard. watermanship (waterman-ship), n. The functions, art, or skill of a waterman or oarsman; oarsmanship. Waterman's Knot. All the rowing interest of each society makes sport for itself and amusement for spectators on the banks with forms of watermanship which are lighter and more pleas The Atlantic, LXVII. 792 ant. De Morgan , Arithmetical Books, xiii. ter-lines: as, Irish linen water - lined paper. of the water in any ve el or reservoir, natural or artificial, in which water is standing, standing, as in a water-liverwort (water-liver-wert), n. The well, canal, pond, lake, etc.; also, the plane of water-crowfoot, Ranunculus aquatilis . saturation beneath the surface of the ground, or the plane below which the soil or remains saturated with water under the ordinary conditions of rainfall, etc. But in strata occupying such a position, as well as in the gravel, all wells must be sunk by digging, and not bored, to the natural water - level , there being no superincumbent impermeable stratum to keep down the water at a level below that to which it would naturally have a tendency to rise.