(archaic) plural of beam

Beamy; radiant; luminous.

A quantity in a beam (of wood, of light, etc)

A surname.

Alternative form of onbeam

plural of beamful

A surname.

(nautical) Coming from a point abeam (neither directly ahead/head-on, nor well before the beam, nor directly astern, nor well abaft the beam/quartering); said of waves or any object moving relative to the vessel.

present participle of beam up

(gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus, a narrow wooden rail used in artistic (athletic) gymnastics. / (gymnastics) A gymnastics event using the balance beam apparatus.