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(nautical) Across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel. quotations examples
At all times except when whales were alongside, this bench was securely lashed athwartships against the rear of the Try-works.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 107, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley