boomhouse

boom-house, boom house

boom +‎ house

boomhouse (plural boomhouses)

1. (logging) A building for housing the operator of the winch that controls a boom which is used to control the flow of logs that float downriver to the sawmill.
   • 1947, Walter O'Meara, The Trees Went Forth: A Novel, page 213:

     In the Mokoman country the most famous jam was that of June, '88, when the booms broke and the piers went out at the boomhouse above Mokoman.

   • 1974, Walter O'Meara, We made it through the winter: a memoir of northern Minnesota boyhood:

     Occasionally we would range as far up the river as the boomhouse, three miles from town.

   • 1997, Floyd I. Brewer, A Dutch-English odyssey:

     Poling logs at the boomhouse was dangerous work for him since he never learned to swim.

   • 2000, Richard Schmitt, The Aerialist: A Novel, page 158:

     Pay raised and sitting out the winter in the boomhouse running the winch, moving the containers around, telling the men what to do on deck.