athwartship

11 letters · adjective · scores 3,400 in SpellHuntr

adjective

Oriented across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel.

Athwartship in a sentence

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

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