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Beam-ends   /bim-ɛndz/   Listen
Beam-ends

noun
1.
(nautical) at the ends of the transverse deck beams of a vessel.





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"Beam-ends" Quotes from Famous Books



... see the bark from bow to stern, for she lay broadside to me. When the draught from the south first struck her she went over slowly almost upon her beam-ends; but righted majestically and her helm being put over she slewed around so as to take the ...
— Swept Out to Sea - Clint Webb Among the Whalers • W. Bertram Foster
... vessel within the surf, but a few yards distant from the outer rocks, thrown on her beam-ends, with both foresail and mainsail blown clear out of their bolt-ropes. The cry for succour was raised in vain; the wail of despair was not heard; the struggles for life were not beheld, as the elements in their wrath roared and howled ...
— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat


Words linked to "Beam-ends" :   face, seafaring, side, sailing, navigation


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