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abeam
[ uh-beem ]
adverb
- Nautical, Aeronautics. at right angles to the fore-and-aft line:
The vessel was sailing with the wind directly abeam.
- directly abreast the middle of a ship's side.
abeam
/ əˈbiːm /
adverb
- postpositive at right angles to the length and directly opposite the centre of a vessel or aircraft
Word History and Origins
Origin of abeam1
Example Sentences
England and the Kingdom, Britain and the Empire, the old prides and the old devotions, glide abeam, astern, sink down upon the horizon, pass - pass.
Nothing came back at us from the island, but our ship’s gunners still sprayed it with bursts of twenty-millimeter fire as we passed abeam.
But when, last Sunday, the rain came, and a vessel carrying the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a drenched choir perched on top came abeam the queen’s moored royal barge near Tower Bridge, that changed.
With the wind abeam on the port side the "Golden Hind" opened out to one hundred and forty miles an hour.
Caught in the blinding glare, her crew could be seen hard at work endeavouring to turn a pair of torpedo-tubes abeam--a task of considerable difficulty owing to the "racer" being damaged.
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