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beam-ends

noun

Definitions

  1. The ends of the transverse beams of a ship.

    • 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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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at beam-ends. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at beam-ends. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at beam-ends

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA