Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In lumbering, a timber which forms part of a boom.

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Examples

  • If the story requires a young Ash though Johnny Knoxville would be a good choice, though it would still be awesome seeing Campbell donning the chainsaw hand and boom-stick once more.

    ‘Evil Dead 4’ Won’t Rely On Younger Sidekick, Says Bruce Campbell » MTV Movies Blog 2008

  • The little maskless heeler starts bumping me in panic when she sees the boom-stick pulled out of its case.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004

  • There was also a guy with a boom-stick who liked yelling about aliens and firing it in the air a lot -- probably one of the people working there but he fired it like 3 feet from my ear which really freaking hurt.

    elfpvke Diary Entry elfpvke 2004

  • So the old monk picks up the kid's boom-stick & man, did that gong groan!

    The Shooting of Dan's Guru 2000

  • He clawed his way along the submerging boom-stick to its other end, where it was linked with its neighbor, and the combined buoyancy of both boom-sticks was sufficient to float him.

    Kindred of the Dust 1918

  • Handicapped as he was with his overcoat, old Hector found it a prodigious task to reach the boom; as he clung to the boom-stick he could make out the figure of a man with a pike pole coming toward him in long leaps across the logs.

    Kindred of the Dust 1918

  • He had swum to the outer edge of the log boom and grasped the light boom-stick, dozens of which, chained end to end, formed the floating enclosure in which the log supply was stored.

    Kindred of the Dust 1918

  • Only a trained river man could have won to him in such a brief space of time; only an athlete could have made the last flying leap across six feet of dark water to a four-foot log that was bearing gently down, butt first, on the figure clinging to the boom-stick.

    Kindred of the Dust 1918

  • The moment he rested his weight on this boom-stick, however, one end of it submerged suddenly -- wherefore The Laird knew that the impact of the motor-boat had broken a link of the boom and that this broken end was now sweeping outward and downward, with the current releasing the millions of feet of stored logs.

    Kindred of the Dust 1918

  • The 1,000 level was reached in 1992 when boom-stick shooters downed 1,188 whitetails.

    Reader - MassLive.com 2009

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