boom-boatn.
Any of the boats stowed in the booms of a vessel.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > boat attendant on larger vessel > [noun] > ship's boat > stowed in specific place
stern-boat1837
boom-boat1867
waist-boat1891
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vii. 226 By placing boats inside her present boom boats.
1893 Daily News 3 July 5/6 Seeing the critical condition of the Victoria,..boats were immediately prepared and boom boats got ready to be hoisted out.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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boom-boat
boom-boat n. a boat stowed on the booms (see 1b).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > vessel used at log booms
boom-boat1966
1966 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. June 214/3 Log booms, loose logs, and boom boats were swept out of the bay.
1969 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 7 Sept. 10/2 Mainland Prince had been en route up coast to pick up a tow, with a boom boat tied astern.
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