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

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

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