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

Travers :: Travers (a.) Across; athwart.

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

Overthwartness :: Overthwartness (n.) The state of being overthwart; perverseness.

Double-bank :: Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or 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..

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

Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart..

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

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

Cross :: Cross (a.) Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.

Across :: Across (n.) From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river..

Thwarter :: Thwarter (n.) A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions..

Cross :: Cross (prep.) Athwart; across.

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control..

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

Portate :: Portate (a.) Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate..

Thwart :: Thwart (a.) Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.

Across :: Across (adv.) Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.

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