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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a shanty on a log raft or floating wharf, used by boom-men.
See: boom-man
Quotations
1896
Just above the upper end of the wing-boom, at a place widened out a few feet to receive it, was built a little shanty known as a boom-house.
1955
They were on their way to work at the boom house of the Restigouche Boom Company.