athwartship

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adjective

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”

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Meanings

adjectiveathwartship (not comparable)
  1. not comparablenauticalOriented 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

    1 more example

    The Nan-Shan had an athwartship bunker which, being frequently used as cargo space, communicated by an iron door with the fore ’tween-deck.

    1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter 14, in Typhoon, New York: Putnam, page 107
adverbathwartship (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of athwartships.
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