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booming ground(s) ((2))

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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that part of a river, lake, or ocean where logs are dumped to be gathered into booms (def. 3), or where booms and rafts of logs are held.

See: boom ((1)) ((n.))(def. 3),holding boom

Quotations

1883

The raft has now been placed in the "booming" ground in the slough above the mill.

1958

. . . Pacific Veneer acquired two acres of land at the junction of the Quesnel and Fraser rivers for use as booming grounds for peeler logs, a collecting place for shipment to Vancouver.

1963

Truck-load of logs ready for dumping at the booming-ground.