In the American lumber-trade: A line of floating timber stretched across a river or round an area of water to retain floating logs.
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > string of logs on river (9) boom1702 In the American lumber-trade: A line of floating timber stretched across a river or round an area of water to retain floating logs. boom fence1848 boom-stick1850 sheer-boom1875 sheer-boom n. Lumbering a boom to catch floating logs and turn them in the desired direction. sheer-line n. in military bridges, the stretched… string1878 Lumber-trade. A number of logs fastened together to be carried down by a river. brail1879 In the American timber trade: A number of logs held together by ropes and booms, forming part of a raft. jam-boom1879 attributive and in other combinations (mainly in words of the American lumber-trade), as jam-boom n. a boom on a river for jamming or blocking the… boom timber1883 (In sense 4.) boom log1945 |
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