What does forebeam mean?
Forebeam means The breast beam of a loom..
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The breast beam of a loom..
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.
The advanced design of new cats makes pitchpoling less likely. The treacherous forebeam is gone, and the new hulls have been engineered stronger to resist twisting under stress.
If using an all-chain system, then also utilise rope with the stretch in the bridle arms and have a 'lazy loop' of chain to act as a catenary between the bridle attachment and the forebeam. The minimum length of anchor line should be five times the height from the forebeam to the bottom at high tide.
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Forebeam means The breast beam of a loom..
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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.
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