beam reach
Americannoun
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We sailed from Key West on a beam reach with an eight foot following sea and had dolphins in our bow wake the entire ride.
From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2016
He saw the narrow ray of that signal beam reach out and up to one of the narrow, barred windows.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
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