athwartship

English

Adjective

athwartship (not comparable)

1. (nautical) 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

   • 1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter 14, in Typhoon‎^[1], New York: Putnam, page 107:

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

Adverb

athwartship (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of athwartships