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adverb

Athwart adv.

Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely. "Sometimes athwart, sometimes he strook him straight."

Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely. "All athwart there came A post from Wales loaden with heavy news."

preposition

Athwart prep.

Across; from side to side of. "Athwart the thicket lone."

(Naut.) Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course.

Athwart hawse, across the stem of another vessel, whether in contact or at a small distance.

Athwart ships, across the ship from side to side, or in that direction; opposed to fore and aft.

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Etymology of 'Athwart'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of casks in the hold, athwart. Also, the fore and aft space allotted to a hammock; the ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... arise, and whisper low, As moon to weeping clouds, until there rise Like pallid rainbow, wan with spectral glow, A thing of fearful joy athwart my skies, A hope, a joy e'en yet that this might be, That I should die for ...

— Atma - A Romance • Caroline Augusta Frazer

... athwart the vapors dun The Easter sun Streamed with one broad track of splendor! In their real forms appeared The warlocks weird, Awful as ...

— Tales of a Wayside Inn • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... before Ilion from above the island of Samothrace. Now Samothrace, according to the map, appeared to be not only out of all seeing distance from the Troad, but to be entirely shut out from it by the intervening Imbros, which is a larger island, stretching its length right athwart the line of sight from Samothrace to Troy. Piously allowing that the dread Commoter of our globe might have seen all mortal doings, even from the depth of his own cerulean kingdom, I still felt that if a station were to be chosen from which to see the fight, old Homer, so ...

— Eothen • A. W. Kinglake

... sovereignty recognised, in the world of letters, where hers can claim no subjects, and demand no homage. That crutch is now the sceptre of bookdom. Its shadow stretcheth over all lands, whether the dawn project it athwart the broad Atlantic, or the Boreal light send it overland to farthest India. Who reads not Maga? You shall find the smutched lieutenant turning over its pages by the camp-fire, after a terrible scratch with the Sikhs; and within the same twenty-four hours you may fairly surmise ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various

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