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booms

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | 262 words | Copyright

booms, the space in larger sailing vessels usually between the foremast and the mainmast. It was where the skid booms, supported by gallows, were stowed on board in the waist of the ship, and which helped secure the ship's larger boats when the ship was at sea.

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