bumboat
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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thumb|right|Tourist-oriented bumboats on the Singapore River
A bumboat is a small boat used to ferry supplies to ships moored away from the shore. The name comes from the combination of the Dutch word for a canoe—"boomschuit" ("boom" meaning "tree"), and "boat".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bumboat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.