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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beam wind

The canoe jumped to mount the glossy waves raised by the beam wind.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

With a strong beam wind and in moderate drift big marches were made for two days, during which the compass and sastrugi determined our course.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir

When there is a stiff beam wind the bows of a racing craft tend to bear up into the wind’s eye.

From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.

Now we're asleep at eleven knots on a beam wind, and Key West wide on the starboard bow, the same being in the second dog-watch when I'm invited aft.

From A Man in the Open by Pocock, Roger

Before a fresh beam wind the Fancy was slipping rapidly through the water, with Captain Duff steering, Bonny doing odd jobs about deck, and the passengers confining themselves closely to the hold.

From Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast by Munroe, Kirk