forebeam
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "They are sustained at bottom with other strong pieces of wood in the manner of trestles; and, to keep them the firmer, they are likewise fastened to the floor with a kind of buttresses, which prevent any shaking, though there are sometimes four or five workmen leaning on the forebeam at once."
- "{Just like the cloth that goes} from this side {of the loom, from the yarn-beam}, to that side over there {to the forebeam}, winding on there, and winding off here."
- "On the tenth year Frya's sister took the forebeam from the loom, put the rolling-pin crosswise and wrapped it with a baby bundle."
- "And herein also her forebeam to which her bowsprit was fastened, cracked clean insunder; and some of her timbers likeways in the hold we found defective."
- "Schooner Ketcham returned to Chicago with foretopmast gone and forebeam sprung."
- "Turns of shock cord, securing tack to centre of forebeam, stretch as the wind increases. This allows the jib to move up, frees the halyard slightly so the tack and peak move away from forestay."