2. Verb. (third-person singular of boom) ¹
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Definition of Booms
1. boom [v] - See also: boom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Booms
Literary usage of Booms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States by Ralph Clement Bryant (1913)
"booms, consisting of long sticks of timber fastened together end for end and
moored to ... booms are also used to aid drivers in sluicing logs through dams, ..."
2. A Manual of Forestry by Sir William Schlich (1896)
"booms. booms are constructions intended to arrest or divert the passage of all
... booms, therefore, vary from those of the simplest nature to colossal ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1887)
"lature may give them the exclusive right to maintain booms or to drive logs ...
Eight of Boom Company to Maintain booms.—The right of a booming company to ..."
4. American Architect and Building News (1903)
"In upper and lower flanges or booms these cores are constituted by cylindrical
rods to which the iron cores of the struts are connected simply by bending ..."
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