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sheer-boom † Lumbering

• n. Lumbering a small boom having one end anchored to the shore and the other swinging out into the stream to direct logs into a holding boom.

  See also: holding boom  lead boom  log-guard  

  • 1896  The section of the sheer-boom thus peculiarly adorned was called the wing-boom.
  • 1958  J. D. Roberts, woods manager, pointed out that the portion which broke was the lead or "sheer" boom and not the main holding boom . . . into which the floating logs are funnelled by the lead booms.