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Ancone :: Ancone (n.) The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter..

Trawl :: Trawl (n.) A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, -- used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom..

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

Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (n.) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam..

Lath :: Lath (n.) A thin, narrow strip of wood, nailed to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used..

Beamlet :: Beamlet (n.) A small beam of light.

Reach :: Reach (v. i.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam..

Cross-spall :: Cross-spall (n.) One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl..

"dormant :: Dormant (a.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or sleep..

Eyebeam :: Eyebeam (n.) A glance of the eye.

Beam :: Beam (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam..

Embeam :: Embeam (v. t.) To make brilliant with beams.

Nettles :: Nettles (n. pl.) Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.

Beamy :: Beamy (a.) Having horns, or antlers..

Contignation :: Contignation (n.) The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric..

Transom :: Transom (n.) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.

Whitebeam :: Whitebeam (n.) The common beam tree of England (Pyrus Aria); -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves..

Inbeaming :: Inbeaming (n.) Shining in.

Clamp :: Clamp (n.) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams..

Collimator :: Collimator (n.) A tube having a convex lens at one end and at the other a small opening or slit which is at the principal focus of the lens, used for producing a beam of parallel rays; also, a lens so used..

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