boatbearer
See also: boat bearer
English
Etymology
boat + bearer
Noun
boatbearer (plural boatbearers)
- A clergyman who carries the incense before it is lit.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 47)
- He remembered the summer evening he had been there to be dressed as a boatbearer, the evening of the procession to the little altar in the wood.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 47)