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ABEAM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does abeam mean?
• ABEAM (adverb)
The adverb ABEAM has 1 sense:
1. at right angles to the length of a ship or airplane
Familiarity information: ABEAM used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane
Context examples
“When running more freely, with the wind astern abeam, or on the quarter, it will be necessary for me to steer.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
We were heading S.S.W. and had a steady breeze abeam and a quiet sea.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It was only next day, when Wainwright Island loomed to windward, close abeam, that Wolf Larsen opened his mouth in prophecy.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
We were already under way, all sails set and drawing, and the sheets being slacked off for a wind abeam, as the last boat lifted clear of the water and swung in the tackles.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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