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Meanings of thwartwise in English

Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis.

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Usage of thwartwise in English
1
Above and around the torches flared, and their reek blew thwartwise across the strange scene.
The Black Douglas
2
She passed, with her two gentlemen, but the French sentinel barred the way, holding his fauchard thwartwise.
A Monk of Fife / Being the Chronicle Written by Norman Leslie of...
3
There was a trough running thwartwise of the ship into which the water had to be lifted from the midship well.
The Ivory Trail
Thwartwise through the time