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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),booming ground(s) ((2))

Quotations

1952

The men who makeup the booms in the "bull-pen" wear sharply caulked boots that enable them to walk and run over the slippery rolling logs as nimbly as cats. They push the logs into place between the side and end boom sticks with long pike poles.