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broad in the beam en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (of a ship) Wide across the hull.
    • Ah! She's not that old green launch with a yellow line, very broad in the beam? 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Baker Street Irregulars”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 145:
  2. (idiomatic, of a person, qualifier:especially a female) Wide across the hips, with large buttocks.
    • [T]he women of Falesa are a handsome lot to see. If they have a fault, they are a trifle broad in the beam. 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 1, in Island Nights' Entertainments:

Forms

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broad across the beam alternative lexicographic
broad-beamed alternative lexicographic

Relateds

broad on the beam

Translations (3)

is hlaunamikill (wide-hipped, having large buttocks) · is hlaunabreiður (wide-hipped, having large buttocks) · ga másach (wide-hipped, having large buttocks)