broad in the beam

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Meaning: (nautical,of a ship)Wideacross thehull.1890February,A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Baker Street Irregulars”, inThe Sign of Four(Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett[…],→OCLC,page145:Ah! She's not that old green launch with a yellow line, verybroad in the beam?; (idiomatic,of a person, especially a female)Wide across thehips, with largebuttocks.1905,Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 1, inIsland Nights' Entertainments:[T]he women of Falesa are a handsome lot to see. If they have a fault, they are a triflebroad in the beam.

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