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  2. Hard up; in a bad situation. What's the origin of the phrase 'On your beam ends'? The beams here are the horizontal transverse timbers of ships. This nautical phrase came about with the allusion to the danger of imminent capsize if the beam ends were touching the water.

  3. The meaning of BEAM-ENDS is the ends of a ship's beams.

  4. beam ends. The bacon curers are on their beam ends. But the fact remains that these people were driven out, dispossessed of their possessions, and most of them landed on their beam ends. They are right on their beam ends, have ruined the business and thrown their people out of employment.

  5. beam-ends. 3 meanings: 1. the ends of a vessel's beams 2. → See on her beam-ends 3. → See on one's beam-ends.... Click for more definitions.

  6. Examples of how to use “beam ends” in a sentence from the Cambridge Dictionary Labs

  7. Beam-ends definition: the ends of the transverse deck beams of a vessel.. See examples of BEAM-ENDS used in a sentence.

  8. Beam-ends definition, the ends of the transverse deck beams of a vessel. See more.

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