To move rapidly. A sea term. A ship is said to boom along when under full sail.
You're right in the way; and if you don't boom along, we'll have to play clearance with you.--J. C. Neal's Sketches.
·adv In company; together. II. Along ·- (Now heard only in the ·prep phrase along of.). III. Along...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
[Saxon]. Lengthwise. ♦ Alongside, by the side of a ship; side by side. ♦ Lying along, when the...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·vi To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon. II. Boom ·noun A pole with a conspicuous top, se...
A long spar run out from different places in the ship, to extend or boom out the foot of a particula...
·add. ·noun A gripping device, as for stretching wire, ·etc., consisting of two jaws so attached to ...
Going with a free wind. ...
Sailing coastways down Channel. ...
Pressed down sideways by a stiff gale. ...
Ropes laid on end, ready for manning. ...
Lend assistance in hauling cables, hawsers, or large ropes along, and lifting some parts in a requir...
See laying along. ...
Sailing from the mouth of the channel upwards. ...
·- ·see Jib boom. ...
·add. ·- A spar formerly carried by men-of-war, having a torpedo on its end. ...
That which stretches the foot of the fore-sail in many small square-rigged merchantmen; particularly...
Those stowed on the booms. ...
The tarpaulin, or painted, cover over the spars. ...
Are metal rings fitted on the yard-arms, through which the studding-sail booms traverse; there is on...
A tackle used in large ships, for rigging out or running in the top-mast studding-sail booms. ...
See main-sail. ...
The boom to which the driver is hauled out. ...
A continuation of the bowsprit forward, being a spar run out from the extremity in a similar manner ...
The spar which stretches the foot of the boom-mainsail in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. ...
The spar which stretches the foot of a lower studding-sail; in large ships they have goose-necks in ...
(See along.) A ship is said to lie along when she leans over with a side wind. ♦ To lie along the ...
To anchor in a river with a hawser on shore to steady her. ...
A rope attached to the extremity of a studding-sail boom, and leading down on deck; it is used to co...
A spar which is pointed through the iron at the jib-boom end. It lies beside it, and the heel steps ...
A swinging spar (lower studding-boom) rigged from the ship's side with a warp for boats to ride by. ...
A boom hooked on to an eye-bolt in the fore-part of the fore-mast of a fore-and-aft vessel, to boom ...
A spar rigged out for the purpose of setting a studding-sail, and taking its name from the sail it b...
See boom. ...
To raise up one end of it by hoisting on the lift, as the spanker-boom is lifted before setting the ...
To lay it along the decks in readiness for the men to lay hold of; called manning it. ...