boomhouse
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[edit]boomhouse (plural boomhouses)
- (logging) 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.
- 1947, Walter O'Meara, The Trees Went Forth: A Novel, page 213:
- 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.
- 1974, Walter O'Meara, We made it through the winter: a memoir of northern Minnesota boyhood:
- Occasionally we would range as far up the river as the boomhouse, three miles from town.
- 1997, Floyd I. Brewer, A Dutch-English odyssey:
- Poling logs at the boomhouse was dangerous work for him since he never learned to swim.
- 2000, Richard Schmitt, The Aerialist: A Novel, page 158:
- 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.