Definition of boom

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Boom (n.) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away..

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Boom :: Boom (v. i.) To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects..
Boom :: Boom (v. i.) To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon..
Throat :: Throat (n.) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail..
Guest Rope :: Guest rope () The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom.
Boom :: Boom (v. i.) To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind..
Balance :: Balance (n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail..
Spencer :: Spencer (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]..
Spanker :: Spanker (n.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail..
Boom :: Boom (n.) A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor..
Bowsprit :: Bowsprit (n.) A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward..
Sheet :: Sheet (v. t.) A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom..
Boomorah :: Boomorah (n.) A small West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer..
Nock :: Nock (n.) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or of a trysail.
Boomerang :: Boomerang (n.) A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward t
Guy :: Guy (n.) A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened..
Bombilation :: Bombilation (n.) A humming sound; a booming.
Bombinate :: Bombinate (v. i.) To hum; to boom.
Silverboom :: Silverboom (n.) See Leucadendron.
Bump :: Bump (v. i.) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom..
Spar :: Spar (v. t.) A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff..
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