·adj Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.
The measure of a vessel from side to side in any particular place athwart-ships. (See straight of br...
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See extreme breadth or beam. ...
A curved line of the ship lengthwise, intersecting the timbers at their greatest extent from the mid...
See moulded breadth. ...
Timbers placed nearly in the broadest part of the ship, and diagonally, so as to strengthen two or m...
The extent of the midships, or dead flat, with the thickness of the bottom plank included. ...
See breadth line. ...
The broadest part of a ship at any particular timber or frame, distinguished by upper and lower heig...
The measure of beam from outside to outside of the timbers, without the thickness of the plank. ...
In ship-building, the same as floor-plan. ...
In ship-building, is a delineation generally in two lines upper and lower determining the height of ...
The second on the builder's draught, representing the lower height of breadth, on which line is set ...
The space before and abaft the dead-flat, in which the ship is of the same uniform breadth as at the...
The distance between the upper part of the same timber and the middle line. ...
A ship-builder's term for a curve in the floor-plan, which limits the distances of the centres of th...