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thwart
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thwart \Thwart\, a. [OE. [thorn]wart, [thorn]wert, a. and adv., Icel. [thorn]vert, neut. of [thorn]verr athwart, transverse, across; akin to AS. [thorn]weorh perverse, transverse, cross, D. dwars, OHG. dwerah, twerh, G. zwerch, quer, Dan. & Sw. tver athwart, ...
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A thwart is a strut placed crosswise (left/right) in a ship or boat, to brace it crosswise. In rowboats it can also serve as a seat for a rower. Some inflatable boats have a thwart which can be folded and removed so the boat can be deflated and rolled up ...
Usage examples of thwart.
No one could doubt that Philip Augustus would abet his vassal, the Countess of Poitou, in dispositions so well calculated to thwart the Angevin.
Pakington, in adopting their policy, and thwarting a whig plenipotentiary.
Though he had been thwarted in Alcazar, the information he had gained was worth the loss.
And smacked into a hard body, as the Argon deftly thwarted her attempt by shifting himself into her path.
Sitting on a thwart up near the mast, Sinclair, the young soldier, had the baler to his head.
Sinclair half rose from his thwart, clawed fingers reaching for the baler, but Nicolson easily pushed him away, and he sank back heavily on his seat, bent forward, cradled his face in his hands and shook his head slowly from side to side.
Having been thwarted in their efforts to silence the Baptist, they would naturally turn on the One whose way he had pointed.
If she removed herself, temporarily, from her home she could thwart Broc and Dogface.
It was for her, Capella, whose star was aligned on the Rollright Stones, to swear allegiance to the thwarted and frustrated king.
We clung to the thwarts in silence as Chubby took us home on a wild ride, and it was only when we entered the quieter waters of the lagoon that we could continue the discussion.
When we climbed over the side of the whaleboat Chubby had the battery switchbox beside him on the thwart and it was wired up.
Chubby cut the motors and we coasted in under the lee of the reef, while Chubby scrambled back to where I crouched on the thwart.
The suppers I had given at my house had set me perfectly at liberty, and the superintendent could do nothing to thwart our love, though he was informed of it, so well are the spies of Turin organized.
Rightly, then, should France worship, and deafen the disaccord Of those who dare withstand an irresistible sword To thwart his predestined subjection of Europe.
The pharaohs, of course, can be encapsuled in a cartouche, and even a mage much less puissant than myself can thwart any number of zombies.