Beam-ends
"Beam-ends" in a Sentence (2 examples)
The ship is lying over half upon her beam-ends; lee scuppers under water, and forecastle all in a smother of foam.
It began to be chill; the tide was rapidly fleeting seaward, the schooner settling more and more on her beam-ends.
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