skill in handling boats;the ability to handle or skill in handling a boat, especially a small one.
noun [专属名词]操船技术;操舟术
It was buried in a box, just where he’d left it, between the pages of a book on boatmanship he’d been given on his thirteenth birthday. 它被放在了一个盒子里,就放在他原来放置的地方,就在一本关于造船技术的书的书页之间,这本书是他在十三岁生日时收到的礼物。