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(nautical) Oriented across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel. quotations examples
The Nan-Shan had an athwartship bunker which, being frequently used as cargo space, communicated by an iron door with the fore ’tween-deck.
1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter 14, in Typhoon, New York: Putnam, page 107
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