Other Word Forms
- beamily adverb
- beaminess noun
Etymology
Origin of beamy
First recorded in 1350–1400, beamy is from the Middle English word bemy. See beam, -y 1
Example Sentences
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Bowhead are beamy black whales, the size of a school bus and a half at most, with a characteristic downturned jaw.
From Economist
Among the more than 3,000 work boats were 39 skipjacks, beamy shallow-draft wooden sailboats, most in poor repair and with an average age of 53 years.
From Washington Post
She assists this particular gung-ho tourist, with modest kayaking skills, into a beamy single, and I am off, gliding across gray-green waters that are milky with the fine silt of glacier-ground rock.
From Washington Post
His fiddlestick, sharp-cutting, can hardest steel divide, And at a stroke can shiver the morion's beamy pride.
From Project Gutenberg
And one beamy smile from you Would float like light between My toils and me, my own, my true, My Dark Rosaleen!
From Project Gutenberg
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