The beam upon which the stanchions of the beak-head bulk-head stand.
·noun A collar beam. II. Collar ·noun A ring or cincture. III. Collar ·vt To put a collar on. IV....
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
(Heb. peh), means in Job 30:18 the mouth or opening of the garment that closes round the neck in the...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
An eye in the end or bight of a shroud or stay, to go over the mast-head. The upper part of a stay. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
For the proper sense of this term, as it occurs in (Judges 8:26) see Earrings. ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·noun The pole of a carriage. II. Beam ·vi To emit beams of light. III. Beam ·noun Fig.: A ray; a ...
Occurs in the Authorized Version as the rendering of various Hebrew words. In 1 Sam. 17:7, it means ...
1) (The King's or Great) Used for weighing heavy goods, "avoirs du pois" (Cal. L. Bk. A. p. 191), i...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
To beam a tub, is to put water into it, to stop the leaking by swelling the wood. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A long double stratum of murky clouds generally observed over the surface of the Mediterranean previ...
·- The <<Clavicle>>. ...
Execution day. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·- A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple. ...
·noun A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not...
Synonymous with crow-foot (which see). ...
A ship is said to be on her beam-ends when she has heeled over so much on one side that her beams ap...
Short lengths of wood cut to fit in between the beams to complete the cargo of a timber ship. ...
A line raised along the inside of the ship fore and aft, showing the upper sides of the beams at her...
This, called also the beak-head beam, is the broadest beam in the ship, and is generally made of two...
A strut or abutment. ...
On the lee-side of the ship, at right angles with the keel. ...
In a steamer, a fore-and-aft beam for connecting the two paddle-beams, and supporting the outer end ...
A direction at right angles with the keel, on the weather side of the ship. ...
For this important timber see cat-beam. ...
See before the beam ...
The bearing of any object which is before or abaft a right line to the keel, at the midship section ...
The same as lodging-knees. ...
Implies any distance from a ship on a line with her beams, or at right angles with the keel. ...
Synonymous with anchor-stock. ...