Beam

1. n. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; — called also beam feather.
2. n. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
3. n. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship.
4. n. The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another.
5. n. The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
6. n. The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches.
7. n. The pole of a carriage.
8. n. A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.
9. n. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
10. n. The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
11. 1n. 1 One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; — called also beam feather.
12. 1n. 1 Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.