Bumboat Definition

bŭmbōt
noun
A small boat used in a port or anchorage to peddle goods to ships' crews.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Bumboat

Noun

Singular:
bumboat
Plural:
bumboats

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 ship

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Dutch bomschuit (“small fishing boat”) + boat.

    From Wiktionary

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