What is "abeam"

Usage examples of "abeam".

Bayelle issued orders, and the fiacre set off for the Par abeam Viomente Street was alive with agitated humanity, gathered in restless knots and clumps, aware of disturbance, but ignorant as yet of the cause.

At this moment the Proserpine had the Point of Piane, and the little village of Abate, nearly abeam.

Davidson, who was waiting to catch Fowey Rocks light in the pelorus as it came abeam, to complete his four-point bearing.

Cape Martin, the southeasternmost point of Nuku-hiva, was abeam, and Comptroller Bay was opening up as we fled past its wide entrance, where Sail Rock, for all the world like the spritsail of a Columbia River salmon-boat, was making brave weather of it in the smashing southeast swell.

By two o'clock in the afternoon when the light, which at best had never been more than a grey half-light, was beginning to fade, what little could be seen of the mountainous seas abeam and ahead of the San Andreas - the blizzard made it quite impossible to see anything abaft of the bridge - were as white as the driving snow itself, the shapeless troughs between the towering walls of water big enough to drown a suburban house or, to the more apprehensive eye, big enough to drown a suburban church including a fair part of its steeple.

He hurried along the gangway and as the first boat came abeam he called, 'Turn', followed it with his azimuth compass until Oakes cried 'Out' and so read off the difference.

As far as Holmsby could see, she carried no guns, but on each side of the for'ard deck-house was a search-light, capable of throwing a beam well ahead with a good elevation, abeam, or vertically downwards.

Squaring her yards, she bore down, ranged abeam under the Pequod's lee, and lowered a boat.

With Pabbay abeam, we altered course to almost due west, heading direct for Laerg.

With the fresh east wind abeam, the Bounty was sailing fast on the starboard tack, rolling slowly and regularly to the lift of the swell.

As he came abeam of the ship's fantail, the fighter lead began his turn onto final approach.

It was a pleasure to thrash along to the westward, under every stitch of canvas, leaving Portland Point abeam, rounding Negril Point at sunset, catching some fortunate puffs of the sea breeze which enabled them to cheat the trade wind, ghosting along in the tropical darkness with the lead at work in the chains, and anchoring with the dawn among the shoals of Montego Bay, the green mountains of Jamaica all fiery with the rising sun.

The Sutherland came round, heeling over with the wind abeam and a trifle more canvas than was safe.

Felt a sharp prick through my coat abeam the first lumbar vertebra.

Still heaving the winches round like fury, the pumpers tended their faces to the wind, felt it come full abeam, and then a little forward.