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Definition of Beamiest
1. beamy [adj] - See also: beamy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beamiest
Literary usage of Beamiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A manual of yacht and boat sailing by Dixon Kemp (1880)
"... beam will more than compensate for the absence of a ton or so weight on the keel.
There ia a very great mistake about this, and the beamiest of the ..."
2. Aids to Reflection: In the Formation of a Manly Character, on the Several by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Marsh (1829)
"... the most current and favorite works of their day: and of these again no more
than may well be supposed to have had a place in the beamiest libraries, ..."
3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1838)
"Mine eyes, of old the beamiest of the beamy, Are now, alas ! the filmiest of the
filmy ; So meagre am I, too, no lath is like me ; Death for my shadowy ..."
4. The Car-builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which ...by Master Car-Builders' Association, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Calvin A. Smith, Leander Garey, Matthias Nace Forney by Master Car-Builders' Association, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Calvin A. Smith, Leander Garey, Matthias Nace Forney (1895)
"See beamiest brake. Brake (for drop-bottom car). Figs. 810-17. A brake arranged
so that none of the rods or levers will interfere with the drop doors. ..."
5. Things I Have Seen and People I Have Known by George Augustus Sala (1894)
"... efforts to obtain for me a position on the staff of Punch, not as an artist,
but as a writer. I dare say Mark Lemon smiled his beamiest H 2 ..."
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