There were people gathered onshore as a bumboat approached.    From Wordnik.com.  [Call to Treason]

There's no wait for a bumboat back, and as we near Changi Village the drizzle stops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Singapore] Reference

French: but, egad! it was no more than a bumboat battle, in comparison with some that I have seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference

A girl who sang in the lily drift -- a-sailing on this dirty, reeking bumboat, with cattle dying jammed in the pens!.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference

Besides stately flag-ships and poor little bumboat schooners, transports are coming and going with regiments or provisions for the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference

There will be parades every day of bumboat floats small boats dressed up as everyday objects from the past, including Chinese wooden clogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Off] Reference

"'E ain't fit to paddle a bumboat," the Cockney went on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories] Reference

A bumboat woman was I, and I faithfully served the ships.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifty "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense] Reference

"Do as you like with your own money, my dear," said the bumboat-woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook] Reference

Polly Treherne, the daughter of a bumboat-woman who plied her trade in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler] Reference

After we had been anchored an hour or so, a bumboat came out, manned by.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"] Reference

It is a tribe of bumboat men, speaking a few words of English, French, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2] Reference

"Want the app'intment of bumboat man in or'nary to this here schooner, eh?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Turned Adrift] Reference

"Is it milk massa manes, and the bumboat woman on the oder side of the bay?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Midshipman Easy] Reference

Though she had no money, she had, however, ample credit to stock her bumboat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler] Reference

She had been a bumboat woman for six years, and had made a great deal of money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Simple] Reference

Jews, and bumboat-women that used to crowd all sail to pick up a spare hand ashore?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life] Reference

Our bumboat boarded us early and stayed with us until the corporal of the guard called "time.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"] Reference

"Why, you see, his aunt is a good old soul, who keeps a bumboat, and goes off to the shipping.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook] Reference

"Only a few horse-marines and bumboat-women, that have been startled like a company of penguins.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 1] Reference

The bumboat and the frigate lovingly rubbed sides, and, like an angel descending from heaven, I saw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference

"And was thy mother a bumboat-woman, a true, honest soul, one of the excellent of the earth?" he asked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler] Reference

"You'll soon find out what tick is, after you have been a week in the bumboat," replied the lad, laughing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook] Reference

Solent were dotted with the sails of craft of all sizes, from the stately frigate to the humble but enterprising bumboat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Aurora] Reference

Mr Png said his 20-strong bumboat fleet can handle up to twice the current passenger load, if it hires 10 more boat drivers.    From Wordnik.com.  [TODAYonline] Reference

All that remained was to get rid of the importunate bumboat -- men who swarmed round the vessel in their little craft, each looking like.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1] Reference

Our stay off Tompkinsville was to be short, but we had time to become acquainted with a characteristic naval oddity known as the bumboat.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"] Reference

"bumboat man in or'nary", as the skipper had styled him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turned Adrift] Reference

“No way I’m setting foot in any titchy bumboat like that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conqueror's Moon]

A very pretty woman, attended his ship many years before as a bumboat girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2] Reference

"When this gig was capsized, it contained, besides Captain Marryat, a middy and an old bumboat woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference