Definitionn. a small boat that ferries supplies and commodities for sale to a larger ship at anchor
Last update: August 1, 2015
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Florence Marryat in her father's memoirs thus relates the incident: "When this gig was capsized, it contained, besides Captain Marryat, a middy and an old bumboat woman." [Please select]
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"Fit to fight a bumboat full o' pilots."' [Please select]
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