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adv. (context nautical English) athwartships
Usage examples of "athwartship".
He went up the steel ladder, through a second armored hatch, turned right, right again, down the passageway, up the ladder where the light was showing, through the athwartships passageway.
Between the two athwartship periscopes stood the WEO, Lieutenant-Commander Simon Grenville.
The captain was standing between the two athwartship periscopes and waiting for the boat to lose way.
Carefully placing her own backpack on the floor between her feet in the athwartship berth, Peggy sat beside George as the boat spun into the night.
When he was taken into the Admiral's cabin he found that the Captain of the Fleet was also present, sitting at Stranraer's side behind a long table set athwartship, with the Admiral's secretary and a clerk at the larboard end.