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athwartship

athwartship adjective: oriented across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel. Also the alternative form of athwartships.

Adjective

athwartship (not comparable)

  1. 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

Also used as

athwartship is also the alternative form of athwartships.

Questions about athwartship

What does athwartship mean?
Athwartship means oriented across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel.
What part of speech is athwartship?
Athwartship is an adjective.

Words near athwartship in the dictionary

  1. athrong
  2. ATHs
  3. Athulivarufinolhu
  4. Athurugau
  5. athwart
  6. athwartship
  7. athwartships
  8. athwartwise
  9. Athy
  10. athymhormia
  11. athymhormic

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