Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical: Formerly, a short boom projecting from each side of the bow of a ship, to extend the weather-clew of the foresail. A short beam of wood or iron projecting from each quarter of a vessel, to which the main-brace and maintopsail brace-blocks are fastened. A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, used to extend the clew of the after-sail. Also written boomkin, bumpkin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a
tack bumpkin . (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and calledbrace bumpkin . (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A short
outrigger projecting from the side of the aft part of a square-rigged sailing ship, used as an attachment point for a rope (brace) used to set a yard-arm at different angles to a mast so to allow the ship to sail at different angles to the wind.
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Examples
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And I think "huckabee" should mean "to badly pretend to be a country bumkin."
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Richard knew you and I know you, Chris, you are not from the streets, nor are you a country bumkin...so to whom are you trying to appeal with these outrageous remarks?
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Either the yanks take a world view that reflects the real politics of their status, or pick another non costal ignorant country bumkin like Bush ie Utah Romney
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Stop putting yourelf about as a country bumkin Glyn and get to grips with what's acceptable and unacceptable in todays' society.
Bernard Manning Glyn Davies 2007
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Barzil was giving an order at the wheel, she fetched a bad lee lurch and sent him in a heap across the deck, striking his head against the bumkin bitts.
Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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Accordingly, I went for'ard to hook the foresail's tack to the bumkin
A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900
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"There, sir, you will catch her over the bumkin-head," answered the boatswain.
In the Eastern Seas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Though he was sent to school very early, and put under the care of the best instructors which the country afforded, he was a considerable time before he could tell his letters, and much longer before he could read with tolerable accuracy: and even then he pronounced every thing with such a clownish accent and such a drawling tone, that any stranger would have taken him for a young country bumkin, who had been used to follow the plow tail, and not for the son and heir of a wealthy gentleman.
chained_bear commented on the word bumkin
"...but it was upon her worthless, profitable hull that the dockyard spent all its slow creeping care, while the Surprise lay in limbo for want of a few midship knees, the starboard knighthead and bumkin, and twenty square yards of copper sheathing..."
—Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 9
A Sea of Words: A short boom projecting from each side of the bow of a ship, to extend the lower edge of the foresail to windward. Also, similar booms for extending the mainsail and the mizzen. (p. 122)
February 15, 2008