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thwartship

thwartship is the alternative form of athwartship.

Meaning of athwartship

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

Questions about thwartship

What is thwartship the alternative form of?
Thwartship is the alternative form of athwartship.

Words near thwartship in the dictionary

  1. thwartingly
  2. thwartings
  3. thwartly
  4. thwartness
  5. thwarts
  6. thwartship
  7. thwartships
  8. thwartsome
  9. thwartways
  10. thwartwise
  11. thwarty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thwartship (page history and authors); athwartship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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