 | J. J. Moore - 1805 - 300 páginas
...tiers of guns. BEAMS, strong thick pieces of timber, stretching across the ship from side to side, to support the decks, and retain the sides at their...means of strong knees, and sometimes of standards. Midship BEAM, the longest beam in a ship, being lodged irMhe midship frame, or between the widest frame... | |
 | 1821 - 708 páginas
...placed at the top of hills, &c. Beams. Strong pieces of timber stretching across a ship's side to side, to support the decks, and retain the sides at their proper distance. Bear a-hand. Make haste, despatch. Bearing signifies the point of the compass which any two or more... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 1826 - 764 páginas
...the top of hills, &c. Гч 'нач. Strong pieces of timber stretching across a ship's side to side, to support the decks, and retain the sides at their proper distance. Bear a-hand. Make haste, despatch. Bearing significa the point of the compass which any two or more... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 1846 - 854 páginas
...placed at the top of hills, &c. Beams ; strong pieces of timber, stretching across a ship, side to side, to support the decks, and retain the sides at their proper distance. "Bear a-hand!" make haste, despatch. Bearing signifies the point of the compass which any two or more... | |
 | James Pryde - 1867 - 506 páginas
...inclined towards the horizontal. Beams, strong pieces of timber stretched horizontally across a ship, to support the decks, and retain the sides at their proper distance. 'Bear a hand,' make haste to assist ; despatch. Bearing signifies the point of the compass on which... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1874 - 530 páginas
...beams, after being sized and dried, are wound upon one beam, which afterwards forms the weaver's beam. BEAMS, strong transverse pieces of timber stretching...each end by thick stringers on the ship's side called shelf-pieces. The main-beam is next abaft the main-mast. The greatest beam of all is called the midship... | |
 | Charles Annandale, Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1901 - 532 páginas
...the eloth is rolled as it is woven. In a ship one of the strong transverse pieces stretching across from one side to the other to support the decks and retain the sides at their proper distance: hence a ship is said to be 'on her beam ends' when lying over on her side. Beam-tree (Pyrui aria),... | |
 | Charles Leonard-Stuart, George Jotham Hagar - 1912 - 666 páginas
...woven. In a ship, one of the strong transverse pieces stretching across from one side to the other Bean to support the decks and retain the sides at their proper distance ; hence, a ship is said to be on her beam ends when lying over on her side. Beaming, the art of winding... | |
 | 1918 - 848 páginas
...weaving; also the cylinder on. which the cloth is rolled as it is woven. In shipbuilding, one of several strong transverse pieces of timber stretching across...each end by thick stringers on the ship's side called shelf-pieces. The main-beam is next abaft the main-mast. The greatest beam of all is called the midship... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1921 - 506 páginas
...the cloth is rolled as it is woven. In a sh'p one of the strong transverse pieces stretching across from one side to the other to support the decks and retain the sides at their proper distance : hence a ship is said to be ' on her beam ends ' when lying over on her side. Beam-tree {pyrut aria)>... | |
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In a balance it is the part from the ends of which the scales are suspended. In a loom it is a cylindrical piece of wood on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also the cylinder on. which the cloth is rolled as it is woven. In... 
