bumping race

British

noun

(esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front

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It is a bumping race, similar to those at Oxford and Cambridge, rowed by the different Lower Boats—Britannia, Dreadnought, etc.

From Rowing by Lehmann, Rudolf Chambers

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