Forebeam

Quick meaning: Forebeam is a noun meaning The breast beam of a loom.

Meaning

The breast beam of a loom.

More Meanings

1. (robotics) The support section of a robot arm that goes from the main body of the robot to the gripper.
2. The leading portion of a remote signal from a moving source.
3. (nautical) A horizontal spar across the bow of some sailing vessels, used to stabilize the hulls of a catamaran, to secure a bowsprit, or to tie down the tack when there is no bowsprit.

Example Sentences

Schooner Ketcham returned to Chicago with foretopmast gone and forebeam sprung.

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.

{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.

Word Forms

• forebeams

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