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boom along
To move rapidly. A sea term. A ship is said to boom along when under full sail. You're right in the...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
That which stretches the foot of the fore-sail in many small square-rigged merchantmen; particularly used in whalers among the ice, with a reefed fore-sail to see clearly ahead. The tack and sheet are thus dispensed with, a spar with tackle amidships brings the leeches taut on a wind. It is principally worked by its bowline.
To move rapidly. A sea term. A ship is said to boom along when under full sail. You're right in the...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.