Thwartship | Word Thwartship at Open Dictionary of English by LearnThat Foundation

To support these girders in a thwartship direction a series of transverse frames were placed at 12 feet 6 inches centres throughout the length of the ship, and formed,...
No one had noticed it, but they suddenly became aware that the almost-square cabin was now definitely rectangular, with the familiar controls, the communications wall, and the...
Lanyard moved down to the junction of the thwartship passage with the fore-and-aft alleyway.
To right and left on a thwartship line just back of them towered the chimneys softly giving out their titanic respirations.

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