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Prevent :: Prevent (v. t.) To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart.

Manger :: Manger (n.) The fore part of the deck, having a bulkhead athwart ships high enough to prevent water which enters the hawse holes from running over it..

Thwartingly :: Thwartingly (adv.) In a thwarting or obstructing manner; so as to thwart.

Thwartly :: Thwartly (adv.) Transversely; obliquely.

Cross :: Cross (v. t.) To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms..

Overthwart :: Overthwart (prep.) Across; from alde to side of.

Double-banked :: Double-banked (a.) Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart..

Bilk :: Bilk (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.

Thwart :: Thwart (v. i.) Hence, to be in opposition; to clash..

Thwarting :: Thwarting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thwar.

Thwart :: Thwart (v. t.) To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air..

Rub :: Rub (v. t.) To hinder; to cross; to thwart.

Aslant :: Aslant (prep.) In a slanting direction over; athwart.

Transverse :: Transverse (a.) Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal..

Transverse :: Transverse (n.) Anything that is transverse or athwart.

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree..

Spite :: Spite (n.) Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite..

Prevention :: Prevention (n.) The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting..

Contrarry :: Contrarry (a.) To contradict or oppose; to thwart.

Thwartness :: Thwartness (n.) The quality or state of being thwart; obliquity; perverseness.

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