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thwartships

thwartships is the alternative form of athwartships.

Meaning of athwartships

Adverb

athwartships (not comparable)

  1. Across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel.
    • to place / fix / stow something athwartships; to pace the bridge athwartships

Questions about thwartships

What is thwartships the alternative form of?
Thwartships is the alternative form of athwartships.

Words near thwartships in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thwartships (page history and authors); athwartships (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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