sausage boom
n.— «Workers placing additional sausage boom in creek, on west side of tracks.» —“AR Photo Gallery: Canyon Derailment” Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Spill Prevention and Response Oct. 31, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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