THWART

Thwart

A thwart is a strut placed crosswise in a ship or boat, to brace it crosswise. In rowboats it can also serve as a seat for a rower.

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thwart

Noun

  1. A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
    A well made doughout canoe rarely needs a thwart.
  2. A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
    The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row.

Verb

  1. To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.
  2. To move across or counter to; to cross.

Adjective

  1. Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
  2. Perverse; crossgrained.

Adverb

  1. Obliquely; transversely; athwart.


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