Rising with his utmost velocity from the furthest depths, the Sperm Whale thus booms his entire bulk into the pure element of air, and piling up a mountain of dazzling foam, shows his place to the distance of seven miles and more.
As we were passing along close to the booms on the starboard side, under the long boat, I thought amidst the howling of the tempest that I heard a low whine.
A line of booms had been placed across the mouth of the inner harbour, with only a narrow entrance.
In securing the booms at sea the several turns of the lashings are frapped in preparation for the succeeding turns; in emergency, nailed.
Those stretching under the yards and jib-booms for the men to stand on; they are the same with horses of the yards (which see).
Also, cross-pieces on the tops of standards, on which the booms or spare-spars or boats are lashed between the fore and main masts.
It is used for various purposes, especially for guest-warps and swinging boomsof all descriptions.
The bittern booms again as we row down the peaceful river, and we leave the marshland to its ancient and rightful owners.
These vessels have enormously long lower masts, and the spread of the rigging is in consequence small; their booms are long and heavy, and all the weight above deck is centered in a line over the keel.
It is the custom now to put bridles or spans on gaffs andbooms in order to distribute the strain.
On cruising boats with outboard booms reef-pendants for the two lower reefs are generally kept rove, but they are much of a nuisance.
The yacht went through all right, but both the schooners lost their fore topmasts, bowsprits, jib booms and other headgear, and had to return to New York for a refit.
One day, soon after they came, the dams and boomswere opened above, and forests of logs came riding down to Bamber's Boom.
It was the old man's duty to keep the booms of several great lumbering companies, and to watch the logs when the river-drivers were engaged elsewhere.
There was a rattle of blocks as the booms swung out, and as the Selache sped away before the rapidly freshening breeze it seemed to Dampier that he saw the boat hurled upon the ice.
Heavy booms were placed across all the canals by which it was likely that the enemy's fleet might advance.
I fancy that, since Barberigo carried off two of them, they have put booms across the channels to prevent sudden attacks.
Iron rings on the yards, through which the studdingsail booms traverse.
If there are any studdingsail booms on the lower or topsail yards, they must be triced up before reefing.
Light sails set outside the square sails, on booms rigged out for that purpose.
If you have the wind free and all sail set, take in your studdingsails, make them up and stow them away, rig in the booms and coil away the gear, and have all ready in good season.
Now Booms is going out for the grub, aren't you, Booms?
There's only one duffer here that can do as much as me and Booms put together, and that's you.
At that moment a knock came at the door, followed by the entrance of Booms in all the gorgeousness of his evening costume.
Booms sat very uncomfortably, not knowing what fresh topic to discourse on.
Booms answered the question with such an agonised sigh that both his companions burst out laughing.
And he showed Booms the paragraph which appeared in the London papers the morning after Reginald's arrest.
They sat-- and Booms had contrived to raise a third chair somewhere--with a pile of work in front of them which at first seemed hopeless to expect to overtake.
Even at the office, in the intervals of work, he reported everything his ears could catch, not excepting the melancholy utterances of Booms and the vulgar conversation of the errand-boy.
Booms remembered something he had to do in another room, and went to the door.
Dick Sand and Jack, toward nine o'clock in the morning, in very clear weather, were installed on the boomsof the mizzen-topmast.
The bags are piled in neat pyramids, or in other forms, sometimes on the booms before the boats, and sometimes in a square mass on the after part of the quarter-deck of a frigate.
This done, and the dead-eyes and ratlines squared, the shroud and backstay mats are put on, and the masts and studding-sail booms carefully scraped.
By the time that Trinity finally booms its twelve stout strokes down into Broadway there is congestion upon the sidewalks--the favorite stools at the counters, the better tables in the higher-priced places are being rapidly filled.
III Thirty minutes before the big bell of Trinity spire booms out noon-tide New York's busiest grub-time begins.
We could see her jibs swollen with venom, and past them the great sweep of her mainsails with the booms well out over the side to take the full of the wind.
Every now and again came the sullen boom of her guns and answering booms from her pursuers.
The guns, nettings, and booms were covered with the chiefs and attendants dressed in very gay colours.
These towns are fortified with stockades, guns of various calibre, and the passage up the river defended by booms or piles of timber, which admit of but one narrow passage for their prahus.
The booms and the gaffs (see Plate 30 for names of parts) must swing freely on the mast, so as to fold together when the trigger is released.
Be sure that the booms will swing over the forward wheel, so as not to interfere with its easy running.
An unsuccessful attempt was made by the boats of the flagship the very same night to pull up some of the iron stakes driven into the bed of the river, that held the booms in their position across its mouth.
The dredgers, withbooms far out, kept barely under steerage way, following one another closely.
The schooner was no longer winged out, but had both booms off to port, getting the wind on the quarter.
On the deck of the smack that has the flag a powerful young man is standing, and by his side--by all that is astounding--is an enormous man with an enormous beard and a voice that booms through the Arctic stillness.
From, stem to stern the vessel was caked in glossy ice, and from her gaffs and booms hung huge icicles like the stalagmites of the Dropping Cave.
During the day, the topmasts, yards, andbooms were unshipped and thrown overboard, which lightened her, but were not sufficient to make her float.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "booms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
