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boom house

boom house is the alternative form of boomhouse.

Meaning of boomhouse

Noun

boomhouse (plural boomhouses)

  1. (timber industry) A building for housing the operator of the winch that controls a boom which is used to control the flow of logs that float downriver to the sawmill.
    • In the Mokoman country the most famous jam was that of June, '88, when the booms broke and the piers went out at the boomhouse above Mokoman.1947, Walter O'Meara, The Trees Went Forth: A Novel, page 213

Forms of boom house

pluralboom houses

Questions about boom house

What is boom house the alternative form of?
Boom house is the alternative form of boomhouse.

Words near boom house in the dictionary

  1. boom corridor
  2. boom corridors
  3. boom gate
  4. boom gates
  5. boom goes the dynamite
  6. boom house
  7. boom houses
  8. boom off
  9. boom or bust
  10. boom path
  11. boom paths

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