For this curved timber, see fork-beams.
·adv On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
In a line at right angles to the vessel's length; opposite the centre of a ship's side. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A branch of a tree. II. Arm ·noun Anything resembling an arm. III. Arm ·noun An inlet of wat...
Used to denote power (Ps. 10:15; Ezek. 30:21; Jer. 48:25). It is also used of the omnipotence of God...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A deep and comparatively narrow inlet of the sea. That part of an anchor on which the palm is shut. ...
·adj Great as a man's arm. ...
·adj Done (as bowling or pitching) with the arm raised above the shoulder. ·see <<Overhard>>. ...
·vt To arm with proof armor; to arm securely; as, to proof-arm herself. ...
·adj Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally. ...
·adj Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the ...
A lame arm. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A portable locker on the upper deck or tops for holding arms, and affording a ready supply of cutlas...
A frame or fitting for the stowage of arms (usually vertical) out of harm's way, but in readiness fo...
Synonymous with crow-foot (which see). ...
That part of a yard outside the quarter, which is on either side of the mast beyond the battens, whe...
The situation of two ships lying alongside one another, so near that their yard-arms nearly touch ea...
One by which a number of charges, previously inserted, may be fired off in rapid succession, or afte...
Those of the crew selected and trained to the use of small-arms. When they have effected their board...
Wooden wedges fixed on the yards at those points where they support the lifts and braces, and where ...
An octagonal piece of timber supplied to replace a yard-arm if shot away. It is one-third the length...
A marine punishment unknown, except by name, in the British navy; but formerly inflicted by the Fren...