boomage (bomaj)

[ And the bittern sound his drum, Booming from the sedgy shallow. Scott , L. of the L., i. 31. boom-boat (böm'bot), n. One of the boats (c) To roar, rumble, or reverberate, as distant guns. The sound of the musket-volleying booms into the far dining rooms of the Chau ée d'Antin. Carlyle, French Rev., I. iv. 3. (d) To roar, as waves when they rush with violence upon the shore, or as a river during a freshet, or as a ship when rushing along before a fair wind under a pre of sail. She comes booming down before the wind. Totten . boom (böm), n. [ A roaring, rumbling, or reverberation, as of distant guns. Meantime came up the boom of cannon, slowly receding in the same direction. J. K. Hosmer, The Color Guard, vi. (d) A roaring, implying also a rushing with violence, as of waves. There is one in the chamber, as in the grave, for whom the boom of the wave has no sound, and the march of the deep no tide. stowed in the booms. See boom2, n., 5. boom-cover (böm'kuver), n. Naut., the large tarpaulin used to cover over the space where the boom-boats and booms are stowed. boomerl (bö'mer), n. [Appar. in ref. to the sound made by the animal; of kangaroo.-2. A name of the showt'l or mountain beaver, Haplodon rufus or Aplodontia leporina. See cut under Haplodon. Mountain boomer2 (bö'mer), n. [ boomer, the common red squirrel. [Local, U. S.] ance of a boom. [U. S.] Bulwer.