(carpentry) The top longitudinal beam of a ridged roof where the top ends of the rafters meet.

plural of bean goose

(literary, rare, usually passive) Induce somebody to realize something, to impress a realization upon a person, usually in a gradual way.

A town on Phillip Island in Victoria, Australia. / One of the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji.

A gambler, especially if skilled. / A good sport, a gallant sportsman.

Melia azedarach, a deciduous or semi-evergreen tree with poisonous fruit, native to India, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia.

(architecture) A member of a kind of roof truss (a hammer-beam truss), so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.

(colloquial) To deal with, to be focused on. / (colloquial) To love, to enjoy, to be interested in.

plural of beam engine

A kind of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod.