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ducent
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n.
the crewman of a canoe or York boat whose position is in the bow.
Quotations
1800
Jacques Barbé: Voyageur, bowman (ducent).
1810
At daybreak two canoes set off for the Columbia. The first contained: Delcour, ducent; Methode, guide; Delcour and Roberge, middlemen. . . .
1931
[There was] a still larger paddle, which the bowsman or foreman (avant de cant, devant, or ducent ) employed when running rapids or leaping small falls.