bout(te)

[< Cdn F bout (de canot)]

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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either the bowsman or the steersman in a canoe, bateau, or York boat.

Quotations

1806

My canoe through the awkwardness of the Bouttes was very much endangered and every soul on board near perishing.

1828

The eight "bouts" (i.e. men of the ends including steersmen and bowsmen, called "boots" from the French word bout, end) [carried] the canoes. . . .

1956

The crew of each boat comprised the middleman and the boutes, the latter being the bowsman and steersman, who sometimes helped with the paddles.