athwartships
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athwartships (not comparable)
- (nautical) 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
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 107, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, [https://archive.org/details/mobydickorwhale01melv/page/519/mode/1up?q=athwartships 519/mode/1up page 519]:
- At all times except when whales were alongside, this bench was securely lashed athwartships against the rear of the Try-works.
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References
- FM 55-501 Marine Crewman’s Handbook.
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