Pole or Spar Application
- Boom (sailing), spar at the foot of a sail on a sailboat
- Boom (windsurfing), a wishbone shaped piece of windsurfing equipment
- Boom barrier, a barrier used to block vehicular access through a controlled point
- Boom operator (media), an assistant to the production sound mixer
- Log boom, a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and/or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forests
- Boom, mechanical arm on a microphone stand
- The arm of a crane
- The arm of a backhoe
- Boom, rear fuselage of an aircraft as in Twin boom
- Boom operator (military), a controller of in-flight refueling
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Famous quotes containing the words pole or, pole and/or application:
“No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“This man was very clever and quick to learn anything in his line. Our tent was of a kind new to him; but when he had once seen it pitched, it was surprising how quickly he would find and prepare the pole and forked stakes to pitch it with, cutting and placing them right the first time, though I am sure that the majority of white men would have blundered several times.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)