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abeam, adv. or pred. a., prop. phr. Naut.|əˈbiːm|
[f. a prep.1 of general direction + beam n. The ‘beams’ of a ship lie at right angles to the keel.]
In a line at right angles to the ship's length, opposite to the centre of her side; abreast of her actual position, as dist. from afore or ahead, abaft or astern. Const. of. Also of aircraft.
c1836M. Scott Cruise of the Midge (1863) 23 What is that abeam of us? said Mr. Sprawl, who had now come on deck. 1853Kane Grinnell Exped. (1856) xii. 29 Cape Farewell was on our starboard quarter, and the Land of Desolation nearly abeam. 1875‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports ii. viii. i. §5. 619 When he has brought N. to bear exactly a-beam eight points from the direction of the vessel's head. 1941J. A. Hammerton ABC of RAF 119/1 Abeam (on the Beam). Directly at right angles to the fore and aft line. |