What is to rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind. She comes booming down before it. Totten called?
boom — To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind. She comes booming down before it. Totten. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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