a small boat used in a port or anchorage to peddle goods to ships' crews
Origin of bumboat
bum + boat; origin, originally (17th circa ), sailors' slang for garbage boatbumboat
bum·boat bumboat
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bumboat
noun
A small boat used to peddle provisions to ships anchored offshore.
Origin of bumboat
Probably partial translation of Low German bumboot ship's boat partial translation of Dutch dialectal bomschuit small fishing boat bom ship's bottom ( from Dutch bodem ) ( from Middle Dutch) schuit shipTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural bumboats)
- (nautical) a small boat used for carrying provisions to ships lying at anchor in a harbour
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