Shipbuilding. †A cross-beam in the frame of a ship (obsolete); spec. each of several transverse beams bolted to the stern-post, which support the…

One of the horizontal transverse timbers, stretching from side to side of a ship, supporting the deck, and holding the vessel together. on the beams…

the uppermost and longest of the transoms in the stern-frame of a ship.

Nautical. (See quot. 1846.)

hold-beam n., hold-stanchion (see quot. 1867). hold-book n. a book containing an account of the cargo of a vessel. hold-stringer n. a stringer or…

Shipbuilding. One of the beams forming part of the front of the quarterdeck and roundhouse, and the after part of the forecastle. Now rare and histo…

(see quot. 1846); also transferred, a horizontal beam supporting a deck on an oil or natural gas platform.

(see quot.).

the beak-head beam, the broadest beam in a ship (see beak-head, n. compounds and cat-head, n. 1).

one of the strong transverse beams supporting the deck of a ship.

= wing-transom n. at wing, n. compounds 2.

(See quot. 1867 and cross-spall, n.)