DCHP-3

log-boom

Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a barrier of logs or other timbers linked by chains and serving to restrain or enclose floating logs, pulpwood, etc.

Quotations

1912
Now . . . on the left the river is gliding, a wide glassy tide spreading away to where dusk is thickening on the log-booms. . . .
1966
Log booms, loose logs, and boom boats were swept out of the bay.