"Boom" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

An inclosure formed upon the surface of a stream or other body of water, by means of piers and a chain of spars, for the purpose of collecting or storing logs or timber. Powers’ Appeal, 125 Pa. 175, 17 Atl. 254, 11 Am. St. Rep. 882; Lumber Co. v. Green, 76 Mich. 320, 43 N. W. 576; Gas-per v. Heimbach, 59 Minn. 102, 60 N. W. 1060; Boom Corp. v. whiting, 29 Me. 123

A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy
excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the
demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants
to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee.

To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press
of sail, before a free wind.

To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular
favor; to go on rushingly.

A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together,
extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct
navigation or passage.

A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in
a river or harbor.

To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a
sail; to boom off a boat.

To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad
or mining shares; to create a \"boom\" for; as to boom Mr. C. for
senator.

A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the
bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom,
etc.

To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.

A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a
river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from
floating away.

To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the
bittern, and some insects.

A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of
the bittern; a booming.

A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick,
from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended.