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 **Bom**, träspira, som tjänar att sträcka undre liket (tågkanten) av ett segel, så som fockbom, storbom, mesanbom, ledsegelsbom m. m.
+===== The Sailor's Word-Book - 1867 =====
+**BOOM**. A long spar run out from different places in the ship, to extend or boom out the foot of a particular sail; as, jib-boom, flying jib-boom, studding-sail booms, driver or spanker boom, ringtail-boom, main-boom, square-sail boom, &c. A ship is said to come booming forwards when she comes with all the sail she can make. Boom also denotes a cable stretched athwart the mouth of a river or harbour, with yards, top-masts, or stout spars of wood lashed to it, to prevent the entrance of an enemy.—To top one's boom, is to start off.— To boom off, to shove a boat or vessel away with spars.
+===== Dictionary of Nautical Words and Terms - 1982 =====
+**Boom.** Spar for extending foot of sail; usually for fore and aft sails-but studding sails were sheeted to booms. 2. Floating and moored obstruction placed across a navigable channel to prevent passage of enemy vessels, and to detain them while under fire. 3. A derrick boom. 4. Dhow largely used in Persian Gulf. Double ended, straight stem, steered by a yoke, plank bowsprit.

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