DCHP-3

barrel boom

Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of boom (def. 3b) used for towing wood in large lakes and salt water and, sometimes, for holding pulpwood, usually made of four logs or square timbers placed around short core blocks and bolted together.

See: boom ((1)) ((v.))(def. 3b)

Quotations

1961
Tugs tow mats of them downstream in barrel booms . . . .
1961
As the river's current is dead in the lake, the lumbermen must now tow their logs in barrel booms instead of driving them . . . .