In a steamer, a fore-and-aft beam for connecting the two paddle-beams, and supporting the outer end of the paddle-shaft.
·vi A race; lineage. II. Spring ·vi A youth; a springal. III. Spring ·vi Elastic power or force. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
(Heb. ain, "the bright open source, the eye of the landscape"). To be carefully distinguished from "...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A crack running obliquely through any part of a mast or yard, which renders it unsafe to carry the u...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·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...
·add. ·- A variety of steel, elastic, strong, and tough, rolled for springs, ·etc. ...
The source of continuous motion in a time-keeper. Also, that part of a musket-lock which is sunk int...
One jagged or split at the point, thereby forming springs to prevent its drawing. ...
A steel-pronged tool to search for defects in the bore of a gun. ...
Are rather smaller than the stays, and are placed above them, being intended as substitutes should t...
The periodical excess of the elevation and depression of the tide, which occurs when both the sun an...
·- 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...
The beam upon which the stanchions of the beak-head bulk-head stand. ...
A strut or abutment. ...
On the lee-side of the ship, at right angles with the keel. ...
A direction at right angles with the keel, on the weather side of the ship. ...
Newgate, or any other gaol: IRISH. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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. ...
See spring. ...