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Definition of Bumboat
1. Noun. A small boat that ferries supplies and commodities for sale to a larger ship at anchor.
Definition of Bumboat
1. n. A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore.
Definition of Bumboat
1. Noun. (nautical) a small boat used for carrying provisions to ships lying at anchor in a harbour ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bumboat
1. a boat used to peddle wares to larger ships [n -S]
Medical Definition of Bumboat
1. A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc, for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore. Origin: From bum the buttocks, on account of its clumsy form; or fr. D. Bun a box for holding fish in a boat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bumboat
Literary usage of Bumboat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas: With Recollections and Anecdotes of D by François Cellier, Cunningham Bridgeman (1914)
"... Little Buttercup—A Bermuda bumboat woman—Sydney Smith Dickens—Dinah's Tea-party—
1' The Pirates of Penzance "—" The Mikado "—Rutland Barring- ton's ..."
2. A Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River Thames: Containing an by Patrick Colquhoun (1800)
"River Plunder felt as a serious evil about the middle of the Century.— The bumboat
Act of the id Geo. III. Cap. 28.—Its Provisions explained. ..."
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