beamed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of beam.

   He beamed proudly as his daughter accepted the award.

   The signal was beamed to satellites circling the planet.

   Note

   One spelling does two jobs here: he beamed is simple past, while has beamed and was beamed use the participle. The meaning decides which constructions work. Smiling is intransitive, so it never goes passive: she beamed, never she was beamed. Transmitting and furnishing with beams are transitive, so the participle passes easily into the passive (the signal was beamed) and into the timbered adjective.

2. 2
   adjective

   Fitted with beams or heavy timbers as part of its structure.

   Visitors admired the beamed hall of the medieval manor.

   The architect kept the beamed framing visible during the renovation.

   Similartimbered

3. 3
   adjective

   Furnished with antlers, said of a stag, the beam being the main shaft of each antler.

   The finely beamed stag carried a broad spread of antlers above the brush.

   Foresters noted the heavily beamed deer grazing in the clearing.

   Similarantlered

   Note

   Walter Scott gives this sense a memorable line in The Lady of the Lake (1810), where a stag "tost his beamed frontlet to the sky." The frontlet is the brow that carries the antlers. Read beside the timber sense, it shows one image at work twice: the main shaft of an antler is called a beam, just as a main timber is.

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