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Aboard :: Aboard (prep.) Across; athwart.

Hawse :: Hawse (n.) The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse..

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

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

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..

Intervent :: Intervent (v. t.) To thwart; to obstruct.

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

Cross :: Cross (v. i.) To lie or be athwart.

Crossly :: Crossly (adv.) Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.

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

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..

Thwarted :: Thwarted (imp. & p. p.) of Thwar.

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

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

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

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

Thaught :: Thaught (n.) See Thwart.

Thwart :: Thwart (a.) Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.

Checkmate :: Checkmate (v. t.) To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.

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

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