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Bumboat

noun
1.
A small boat that ferries supplies and commodities for sale to a larger ship at anchor.





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"Bumboat" Quotes from Famous Books



... right," he said. "I'm not busy now. That bumboat pirate queered the only business I had. Where are you going to stop? There is only one place," he explained; "that's Pulido's. He'll knife you if he thinks you have five dollars in your belt, and the bar-room is half under water ...
— Captain Macklin • Richard Harding Davis
... poor little bumboat schooners, transports are coming and going with regiments or provisions for the same. Here, too, are old acquaintances from the bay of New York,—the "Yankee," a lively tug,—the "Harriet Lane," coquettish and plucky,—the "Catiline," ready ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 46, August, 1861 • Various


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