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lead boom
[lid]
Lumbering, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a small boom having one end anchored to the shore and the other swinging out into the stream to direct logs into a holding boom.
Quotations
1958
J. D. Roberts, woods manager, pointed out that the portion which broke was the lead or "sheer " boom and not the main holding boom . . . into which the floating logs are funnelled by the lead booms.