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

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Usage examples (31)
  • There were people gathered onshore as a bumboat approached.
  • There's no wait for a bumboat back, and as we near Changi Village the drizzle stops.
  • French: but, egad! it was no more than a bumboat battle, in comparison with some that I have seen.
  • A girl who sang in the lily drift -- a-sailing on this dirty, reeking bumboat, with cattle dying jammed in the pens!
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