beam sea
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of beam sea
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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Running in a beam sea and bow-quartering sea we managed 27 knots comfortably while the big Cats loafed along at 1900 rpm.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other machines kept tab on the force and direction of the wind, variations in temperature, barometric pressure and the rolling of a beam sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dashew's computational fluid dynamics analysis shows an average roll of plus or minus 4.9 degrees in a significant beam sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Given all this, I tried to make sense of the electronic shoreline with Anhinga, our 37-foot Bertram, rolling in a beam sea as the Whaler attempted to slip a half hitch around her wheels.
From Time Magazine Archive
Behind us the locomotive’s smoke stack rolled like a steamer’s funnel when a 298 beam sea is running.
From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
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