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Beaming :: Beaming (a.) Emitting beams; radiant.

Crossbeam :: Crossbeam (n.) A girder.

Beamful :: Beamful (a.) Beamy; radiant.

Beam :: Beam (n.) The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another..

Tiebeam :: Tiebeam (n.) A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof..

Hersillon :: Hersillon (n.) A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable..

Stanchion :: Stanchion (n.) Any upright post or beam used as a support, as for the deck, the quarter rails, awnings, etc..

Mortise :: Mortise (v. t.) To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder..

Beam :: Beam (n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches..

Gleam :: Gleam (n.) A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.

Beaminess :: Beaminess (n.) The state of being beamy.

Trave :: Trave (n.) A crossbeam; a lay of joists.

Torsel :: Torsel (n.) A plate of timber for the end of a beam or joist to rest on.

Warp :: Warp (v. i.) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.

Beam :: Beam (n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam..

Beam :: Beam (n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor.

Hardbeam :: Hardbeam (n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam..

Binding :: Binding (pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel..

Large :: Large (superl.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter..

Beam :: Beam (n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather.

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