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bumboat

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Definition of bumboat

as in longboat

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Noun

The two were on a private longboat trip through the Limestone Islands near Krabi when the boat took a detour after an island lunch.

— Shelby Wax, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2026
Traditional-style longboats cruise the rivers while skyscrapers with rooftop bars offer stunning views of the temples at night.

— Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2026

Definition of longboat

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The prologue starts in 1986 in Newfoundland with a family relocating, uprooting their lives in the most all-encompassing of ways, taking their entire home — propped up on a barge and steered by a lone motorboat — across a bay.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
That is especially true for remote communities that must have their fuel flown in or delivered by barge before the rivers ice over.

— Becky Bohrer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of barge

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ElevenLabs established itself as one of the most highly valued of those startups this month with a $300 million employee tender, at a $22 billion price tag.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Some carts were stacked high with metal steamers, while others held vats of boiling water to blanch tender stalks of gai lan.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of tender

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Ohtani got his bat head down to a cutter from former Dodgers pitcher Dustin May on the inside corner.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
The Tampa is a 270-foot medium endurance cutter based in Portsmouth, Virginia, according to the Coast Guard.

— David Goodhue October 15, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of cutter

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But on a franchise that leads with its D, that believes in punting to win, that only needs game managers to pull out ugly, grindy victories, Lock managed to keep his younger riverboat-gambler tendencies in check.

— Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2026
Still, this riverboat gambler has faith in the talent and presumed quick-healing ability.

— Jess Bryant, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of riverboat

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Tourism is down across Page, say local businesses, with visitors hesitant to rent an expensive houseboat for vacation when the water levels are dropping so precipitously.

— Story Hinckley, Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2026
Now the church itself hosted dances and houseboat parties and sponsored a youth softball team of which Nell Fisher was the manager.

— Tom Drury, Harpers Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026

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