boomage

English

Etymology

boom +‎ -age

Noun

boomage (usually uncountable, plural boomages)

1. A fee charged by the owner of a boom for its use in storing logs.
   • 1895, Congressional serial set, United States. Government Printing Office, page 177:

     The cost of getting logs from the stump to the various sawmills, including cutting, hauling, driving, boomage, shorage, tolls, and other expenses, is, on an average, from $8 to $8.50 per 1000 feet. The average cost of stumpage is $2

2. A fee charged for the use of the area where a boom is tied.

References

• “boomage”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Sorden, L.G. and Isabel J. Ebert. Logger's Words of Yesteryears. 1956.