Athwart
11athwart — /euh thwawrt /, adv. 1. from side to side; crosswise. 2. Naut. a. at right angles to the fore and aft line; across. b. broadside to the wind because of equal and opposite pressures of wind and tide: a ship riding athwart. 3. perversely; awry;… …
12Athwart hawse — Athwart A*thwart , prep. [Pref. a + thwart.] 1. Across; from side to side of. [1913 Webster] Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. (Naut.) Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course. [1913 Webster]… …
13Athwart ships — Athwart A*thwart , prep. [Pref. a + thwart.] 1. Across; from side to side of. [1913 Webster] Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. (Naut.) Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course. [1913 Webster]… …
14Athwart hawse — Hawse Hawse (h[add]z or h[add]s; 277), n. [Orig. a hawse hole, or hole in the bow of the ship; cf. Icel. hals, h[=a]ls, neck, part of the bows of a ship, AS. heals neck. See {Collar}, and cf. {Halse} to embrace.] 1. A hawse hole. Harris. [1913… …
15athwart your hawse — copulating with you A hawse is a rigid cable, and in this naval use, the female is astride it: I was near crazy, with that naked alabaster beauty squirming athwart my hawse, as the sailors say. (Fraser, 1973) …
16athwart — Synonyms and related words: across, across the grain, adverse to, against, against the grain, against the tide, against the wind, at cross purposes, at cross purposes with, at daggers, at daggers drawn, at issue, at odds, at variance, at war with …
17athwart — across; in opposition to; sideways; transversely Forthright s Forsoothery …
18athwart — a·thwart || É™ θwÉ”Ët adv. from side to side; across (Nautical); in an apposing manner prep. from side to side; contrary to …
19athwart — [ə θwɔ:t] preposition 1》 from side to side of; across. 2》 counter to. adverb 1》 across from side to side; transversely. 2》 so as to be perverse or contradictory. Origin ME: from a 2 + thwart …
20athwart — I. prep. Across, over, from one side to the other of. II. ad. 1. Across, crosswise, sidewise, obliquely, awry, askant, askew. 2. Wrong, wrongfully, unseasonably, unsuitably, malapropos …
