Hypertext Webster Gateway: "boomed"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Boom \Boom\ (b[=oo]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Boomed}, p. pr. &
vb. n. {Booming}.] [Of imitative origin; cf. OE. bommen to
hum, D. bommen to drum, sound as an empty barrel, also W.
bwmp a hollow sound; aderyn y bwmp, the bird of the hollow
sound, i. e., the bittern. Cf. {Bum}, {Bump}, v. i., {Bomb},
v. i.]
1. To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the
bittern, and some insects.

At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone.
--Tennyson.

2. To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.

Alarm guns booming through the night air. --W.
Irving.

3. 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.

4. To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular
favor; to go on rushingly.

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