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Overthwart   Listen
adjective
Overthwart  adj.  
1.
Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite. "Our overthwart neighbors."
2.
Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing. "Overthwart humor."





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"Overthwart" Quotes from Famous Books



... spearmen toward the river, where the ground was somewhat broken, and bushed with thorn-bushes. And a bight of the water drew nearer to the Tofters, amidst of which was a flat eyot, edged with willows and covered with firm and sound greensward, and was some thirty yards endlong and twenty overthwart. So there they abode the coming of the foe, and it was now hard on ...
— Child Christopher • William Morris


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