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athwartships
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What does athwartships mean?
adverb
- Across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel.
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At all times except when whales were alongside, this bench was securely lashed athwartships against the rear of the Try-works.
I perceived, moreover, that the newly arranged craft would answer for a washing-machine when placed athwartships, and also for a bath-tub.
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Between the tops, too, and the mast-heads, from the fore to the main swifters, and thence to the mizen rigging, and in all directions athwartships, tricing-lines were run, and strung with hides.