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boomhouse

boomhouse noun: 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.

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
    • Occasionally we would range as far up the river as the boomhouse, three miles from town.1974, Walter O'Meara, We made it through the winter: a memoir of northern Minnesota boyhood

Examples of boomhouse in a sentence

  • Poling logs at the boomhouse was dangerous work for him since he never learned to swim.1997, Floyd I. Brewer, A Dutch-English odyssey:
  • Pay raised and sitting out the winter in the boomhouse running the winch, moving the containers around, telling the men what to do on deck.2000, Richard Schmitt, The Aerialist: A Novel, page 158:

Forms of boomhouse

pluralboomhouses

Origin of boomhouse

From boom + house.

Questions about boomhouse

What does boomhouse mean?
Boomhouse means 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.
How do you use boomhouse in a sentence?
Poling logs at the boomhouse was dangerous work for him since he never learned to swim.
What part of speech is boomhouse?
Boomhouse is a noun.
What is the plural of boomhouse?
The plural of boomhouse is boomhouses.

Words near boomhouse in the dictionary

  1. boomersplained
  2. boomersplaining
  3. boomersplains
  4. boometh
  5. Boomey
  6. boomhouse
  7. boomhouses
  8. Boomhower
  9. Boomhowers
  10. Boomi
  11. Boomi Creek

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