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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