bumboat

(bumbōt′)

noun

a small boat used in a port or anchorage to peddle goods to ships' crews

Origin: bum + boat; orig. (17th c.), sailors' slang for garbage boat

See bumboat in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
A small boat used to peddle provisions to ships anchored offshore.

Origin:

Origin: Probably partial translation of Low German bumboot, ship's boat

Origin: , partial translation of Dutch dialectal bomschuit, small fishing boat

Origin: : bom, ship's bottom (from Dutch bodem, from Middle Dutch)

Origin: + schuit, ship

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