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Thwartwise

adjective
1.
Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis.  Synonyms: cross, transversal, transverse.  "From the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully" , "Transversal vibrations" , "Transverse colon"






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"Thwartwise" Quotes from Famous Books



... unprincipled, and obey no law." And for me, I was ready enough to fall in with the fellow's humour; was not this a whole holiday? So we sheered off together, arm-in-arm, so to speak; and with fullest confidence I took the jigging, thwartwise course my chainless pilot ...
— The Golden Age • Kenneth Grahame

... easily discover what brand of suspenders he fancies; but if he be stoutish, the waistcoat has a little way of hitching along up his mid-riff inch by inch until finally it has accordion-pleated itself in overlapping folds thwartwise of his tummy, coyly exposing an inch or so of ...
— 'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' AND 'Isn't That Just Like a Man!' • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb



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