▪ I. bumkin, bumpkin Naut.
(ˈbʌmkɪn)
Also 8–9 boomkin.
[f. boom n.2 + -kin; possibly the Du. boomken may formerly have been used in this special sense. The spelling bumpkin is now more usual.]
‘A short boom projecting from each bow of a ship, to extend the lower edge of the foresail to windward.’ Falconer Dict. Marine, 1769. Also applied to similar booms for extending the mainsail and the mizen.
| 1632 Sherwood, Bumkin (in a ship), chicambault. 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) Bumkin, or Boomkin, a short boom. 1799 Naval Chron. I. 258 Carrying away her bumpkin. 1825 H. Gascoigne Nav. Fame 75 Dragg'd to the Bumpkin the Foretack is found. 1840 R. Dana Bef. Mast xv. 41 Breaking off her larboard bumpkin. |
| attrib. 1794 Rigging & Seamanship I. 231 Boomkin-Shrouds, to support the boomkins, have their after ends hooked to eye-bolts. |
▪ II. † bumkin2 Obs. rare.
See quot.
| 1697 W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 2 Another Canoa which had been sawn asunder in the middle, in order to have made Bumkins, or Vessels for carrying water. |
▪ III. † ˈbumkin3
[f. bum n.1 + -kin.]
‘A burlesque term for the posteriors’. Nares, q.v.
▪ IV. bumkin(g
obs. form of bumpkin.