bumboat

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Noun
  • Platoon after platoon scuffed down to the shoreline to clamber aboard gunboats, longboats, and six-oared, flat-bottomed bateaux.
    / CBS News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
  • High up the sides of the room is a forest of fake fir trees on the peaks of the mountain and on the lower level there’s a harbour with full-size longboats sitting in it.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The man was able to keep the girl afloat while treading water for around 20 minutes before cruise ship members came to rescue the pair in a lifeboat, the Daily Mail reported.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 30 June 2025
  • All evacuated to a lifeboat and were rescued by a nearby merchant marine vessel.
    Mark Thiessen, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • The annual spectacle, lighting up the city since 1976, this time was launched from barges in the Hudson River, the first time in more than a decade not done from the East River.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
  • After a barge crashed into the restaurant in 2019, the main dining area sank and sent pieces onto the banks of the Ohio River with tables, chairs and umbrellas floating upriver.
    Hailey Roden, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The fire is fought by nine engines, two water tenders and four hand crews.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 6 July 2025
  • Publix’s bone-in fried chicken is superior to their chicken tenders.
    Staff Author, Southern Living, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Brown will regain his role as the team’s backup floor general and will thrive as a cutter, screener, and transition player in his minutes with Jokic and Murray.
    Kambui Bomani, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Grossman said initially the maker space was by appointment only, but now there are open hours where people can make things with a 3D printer, a laser cutter, sublimation machines to put a design on materials, a sewing machine, embroidery equipment and more.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Dove/Torr Cottage, Centerport After a decade living on their yawl in Huntington Harbor and a stint upstate after his mother died, artists Arthur Dove and Helen Torr were able to purchase an old post-office building perched alongside Titus Mill Pond in 1938.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 27 July 2024
  • Prior to the incident, Wilson had been aboard a 52-foot yawl named the Emerald with friends Oster and Colleen McGovern.
    Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
Noun
  • Like its counterpart at Disneyland in California, Tom Sawyer Island is a old timey island amid the Rivers of America, which guests can reach by raft or circle by riverboat.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 7 July 2025
  • Fulton Yards opened on Riverside in 2022 and pays homage to the East End, which was known as Fulton in the late 1800s due to the riverboat building industry located along the Ohio River.
    Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • It’s crowded with houseboats, fishing vessels, roving vendors in sampans, and multi-story floating restaurants that drew tourists until the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to shutter.
    H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 6 June 2025
  • In the proceeding years, visitors who wanted to spend the night in the park could rent houseboats, erect tents, or park their camper vans or RVs, but the nearest hotel was located about an hour away in Florida City.
    Mariette Williams, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Bumboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bumboat. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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