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BUMBOAT

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 796 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUMBOAT  ,a small

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boat which carries vegetables, provisions, &c.; to
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ships lying in
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port or off the
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shore . The word is probably connected with the Dutch bumboat or boomboot, a broad Dutch fishing-boat, the derivation of which is either from
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boom, cf . Ger. bourn, a
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tree, or from bon, a
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place in which
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fish is kept alive; and
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boot, a boat . It appears first in
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English in the Trinity
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House By-
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laws of 1685 regulating the scavenging boats attending ships lying in the
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Thames .

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