Boomhouse

Quick meaning: Boomhouse is a noun meaning (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.

Meaning

(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.

Example Sentences

Poling logs at the boomhouse was dangerous work for him since he never learned to swim.

Occasionally we would range as far up the river as the boomhouse, three miles from town.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• boomhouses

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