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Boomkin
A boomkin, bumkin, or bumpkin is a short spar that may project either fore or aft on a sailing vessel, depending on its function.
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Bumpkin Island
Bumpkin Island, also known as Round Island, Bomkin Island, Bumkin Island, or Ward's Island, is an island in the Hingham Bay area of the Boston Harbor
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bumking
▪ 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.’ Fa...
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bumpkin
▪ I. bumpkin (ˈbʌmpkɪn) Forms: 6 bunkin, 7–8 bumkin, (7 bumking), 7– bumpkin. [The curious gloss in the first quot. suggests that bunkin (presumably the same word) was a humorous appellation for a Dutchman, and meant a man with short stumpy figure. The word may be a. Du. boomken ‘little tree’ (Hexha...
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USS Wasaka III
On 26 September 1917, she shifted to the Bumkin Island section base, whence she operated for the duration of the war and into 1919.
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Yawl
The foresail tack fastened to an iron bumkin protruding from the stemhead.
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portlof
† portlof Naut. Obs. [a. F. porte-lof, f. porte-, porte- + lof luff.] ? = bumkin.1397 Foreign Acc. No. 31 G (P.R.O.), In ij tabulis grossis de ferre emptis et expensis super le portloves dicte navis iij s. iiij d.
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The Acorn and the Pumpkin
This is written in octosyllabic couplets whose aim is to characterise the "Self conceited Country Bumkin” of the fable.
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-kin
-kin, suffix (kɪn) forming diminutives, corresp. to MDu. -kijn, -ken, MLG. -kîn = OHG. -chîn, MHG. -chîn, -chein, -chin, -chen (G. -chen), as in MDu. kindekijn, -ken, MLG. kindekîn, MHG. kindichîn, G. kindchen little child; MDu. husekijn, huusken, MHG. häusichin, G. häuschen a little house. No trace...
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The Kazoo Funk Orchestra
Sickness (2008)
Defunked (2011)
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Little Beard
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martingale
▪ I. martingale, n. (ˈmɑːtɪŋgeɪl) Also 6–7 martingall, 7–9 martingal. [a. F. martingale (Cotgr. 1611 in sense 1), of obscure etymology. First found in Rabelais in chausses a la martingale hose that fastened at the back (hence Sp., It. martingala a sort of hose, in Sp. also cuishes). This is commonly...
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Chasse-marée
The article includes an illustration showing a vessel well adapted to the chasse-marée trade, with a large sail area and strikeable bowsprit and bumkin
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shroud
▪ I. shroud, n.1 (ʃraʊd) Forms: 1–3 scrud, (1 scruud, 3 srud, srut), 3–4 schrud, 3–6 shrud, 4–5 schrowde, 4–6 schroud(e, 4–7 shroude, (4 ssroud, shrout(e, 5 shrude, shrowed, 6 schrowd, shrow'd, shrowdde, 7 sroude), 5–7 shrowde, 5–9 shrowd, 4– shroud. [OE. scr{uacu}d str. neut. = ON. skr{uacu}ð neut....
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