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

All morning, under a brisk beam wind which had sprung up with the rising of the sun, the Arangi flew north, her course continuously advertised by the increasing smoke-talk that gossiped along the green summits. 

From Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack

Under every stitch of canvas, with a bracing beam wind that filled every sail, jib, and square, and stay, the bold frigate Ocean Pride was skimming across the Atlantic like a veritable sea-bird.

From As We Sweep Through The Deep by Stables, Gordon

The ship sailed in a day or two, heading away down channel on a beam wind.

From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Stables, Gordon

Now, however, we had a beam wind, and tore along merrily enough. 

From The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk by Davies, G. Christopher

Except when Godfrey was asleep Luka did not steer, for he did not like the management of the sail, especially now that the boat at times heeled over a great deal with the beam wind.

From Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia by Paget, Walter