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Beam-ends

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Noun

1. beam-ends

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

Example Sentences:
'on her beam-ends'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Beam-ends

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plural noun
1. 
the ends of a vessel's beams
2.  on her beam-ends
3.  on one's beam-ends

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Beam-ends

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plural noun
the ends of a ship's beams
see also beam (sense 1) beam (sense 1g)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Beam-ends

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pl.n.
Nautical
The ends of a ship's beams.

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