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beam-ends

DEFINITIONS OF: beam-ends

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

“"on her beam-ends" means heeled over on the side so that the deck is almost vertical”
Type of:
face, side
a surface forming part of the outside of an object
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