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BUM-BOAT

Specialty Definition: BUM-BOAT

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Bum-boat A small wide boat to carry provisions to vessels lying off shore. Also called "dirt-boats," being used for removing filth from ships lying in the Thames. (Dutch, bumboot, a wide fishing boat. In Canada a punt is called a bun. A bun is a receptacle for keeping fish alive.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BUM-BOAT

Language Translations for "BUM-BOAT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

лодка (boat, pleasure boat, pleasure-boat, shallop, skiff, wherry), доставляющая провизию на суда. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BUM-BOAT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bumboat.

Words within the letters "a-b-b-m-o-t-u"

-2 letters: abbot, about.

-3 letters: abut, ambo, atom, auto, babu, boat, bomb, bota, bout, bubo, maut, moat, tabu, tomb, tuba, umbo.

-4 letters: abo, amu, bam, bat, boa, bob, bot, bub, bum, but, mat, moa, mob, mot, mut, oat, out, tab, tam, tao, tau, tom, tub, uta.

-5 letters: ab, am, at, ba, bo, ma, mo, mu, om.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-b-m-o-t-u"
 

+1 letter: bumboats.

 

+5 letters: blabbermouth.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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