beam wind

American  

[wind] / wɪnd /

noun

Nautical.

1. a wind blowing against a vessel from a direction at right angles to its keel.

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Example Sentences

And why not?––and a fine beam wind coming down the street.

From The Seiners by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)

The start took place at 2:42 P.M. of October 19, 1901, with a beam wind blowing.

From Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers by Doubleday, Russell

We sailed with a beam wind along the shore, searching the coves with our glasses and landing occasionally, without finding a sign of human life. 

From The Sea Wolf by London, Jack

When there is a stiff beam wind the bows of a racing craft tend to bear up into the wind’s eye.

From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.

The St. Pierre shook out her bellying sails and the white sheets drew to a full beam wind.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)