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Categories: Nautical terms, Articles with permanently dead external links, Sailing rigs and rigging, Sailboat components

boom Flexible boom Park Avenue boom

Any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring WordNet 3.0

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Any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In sailing, a boom is a spar, along the foot of a fore and aft rigged sail, that greatly improves control of the angle and shape of the sail. Wikipedia

A sailboat part Wikipedia Disambiguation

In sailing, a spar along the bottom edge of a fore and aft rigged sail Wikidata

A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour. Wiktionary

Spar extending the foot of a sail. Wiktionary (translation)

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spar

ship element

technological component

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sailing vessel

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