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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(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.
Occasionally we would range as far up the river as the boomhouse, three miles from town.
Poling logs at the boomhouse was dangerous work for him since he never learned to swim.
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.
Use boomhouse when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Boomhouse means (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..
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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.
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