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Boom buoy. See Boom stay. 



Boom company. A corporation engaged in handling floating logs, and owning 



booms and booming privileges. (N. F.) 

 Boom chain. A short chain which fastens boom sticks end to end. (Gen.) 



Syn.: toggle chain. (P. C. F.) 

 Boom man. See Pond man. 

 Boom pin. A wooden plug used to fasten to boom sticks the chain, rope, or 



withe which holds them together. (Gen.) 

 Boom rat. One who works on a boom. (N. F.) 

 Boom stay. A heavy weight used to anchor booms in deep water; its position is 



indicated by a pole or float attached to it. 

 Syn.: boom buoy. 

 Boom stick. A timber which forms part of a boom. (Gen.) 

 Bottle butted. See Swell butted. 

 Bottom, II. The lower tier or layer of logs in a joint, usually fastened together 



by boom poles and pins. (E. C.) 

 Bottom loader. See Ground loader. 

 Bottom sill. See Mudsill. 



Bow man. The log driver who sits in the forward end of a bateau. 

 Box, n. (Turp.) A reservoir cut into the base of a pine tree, in which crude 



turpentine is collected. (S. F.) 

 (Log.) See Undercut. 

 Box, V. See Notch. 

 Box a log, V. To throw a log from the log trough onto the mill deck, by means 



of a log kicker. (P. C. F.) 

 Box boards. Lumber from which boxes are manufactured. In some grading 



rules a specific quality of lumber. (Gen.) See Wagon box boards. 

 Box dolly. A lumber-carrying truck which has a single wide-tired wheel in the 



center of the box frame. Used in loading lumber on vessels. (S. F.) 

 Boxing ax. See Turpentine ax. 

 Box shooks. Pieces of lumber cut to size for boxes, but which have not yet been 



made into a box. (Gen.) 

 Syn.: shook. 

 Box the heart, v. In sawing timbers in a sawmill, to cut boards from all sides 



of the heart, leaving the center as a piece of timber. (Gen.) 

 Bracket boom. A stiff boom, three or four logs wide, the logs being fastened 



together by short boards placed crosswise and spiked, or by transverse poles 



fastened by wooden pins, withes, chains, or spikes. (Gen.) 

 Bracket gate. See Needle gate. 

 Brail, n. A section of a log raft, six of which make an average tow. (L. S.) 



Syn.: block. (S. F.) 

 Brail, v. To fasten logs in brails. 

 Brake sled. A logging sled so constructed that, when the pole team holds back^ 



a heavy iron on the side of each runner of the forward sled is forced into 



the roaxlbed. (N. F.) 

 Brand, n. See Mark. 

 Break, n. A draw-bench lised to hold a shingle slab while it is being worked 



with a draw-knife into a hand-rived shingle. (S. F.) 

 Break down, v. 1. To reduce large logs to a size which can be sawed on the 



main log saws in a sawmill. (P. C. F.) 



2. To cut a log into cants. (P. C. F.) 



3. To stop a mill or machine because of an accident. (P. C. F.) 



Break in a landing, to. To roll logs from the landing into a stream. (R. M. F.) 



