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athwartship en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Oriented across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel.
   • athwartship bulkheads; an athwartship berth
   • The Nan-Shan had an athwartship bunker which, being frequently used as cargo space, communicated by an iron door with the fore ’tween-deck. 1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter 14, in Typhoon, New York: Putnam, page 107:

athwartship en · ADV

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of athwartships.
   alt of athwartships