Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A beam at the break of a quarter-deck or forecastle.
  • noun The cloth-beam of a loom.
  • noun The forward transverse beam of a locomotive.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mach.) The front transverse beam of a locomotive.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Part of a loom.

Etymologies

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breast +‎ beam

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