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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