athwartship

English

Adjective

athwartship (not comparable)

  1. (nautical) 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
    • 1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter 14, in Typhoon‎, New York: Putnam, page 107:
      The Nan-Shan had an athwartship bunker which, being frequently used as cargo space, communicated by an iron door with the fore ’tween-deck.

Adverb

athwartship (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of athwartships
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