Usage examples (8)

• But only stoop -- catch the light thwartwise -- and all is a silver network of gossamer!
• She passed, with her two gentlemen, but the French sentinel barred the way, holding his fauchard thwartwise.
• There was a trough running thwartwise of the ship into which the water had to be lifted from the midship well.
• So we sheered off together, arm-in-arm, so to speak; and with fullest confidence I took the jigging, thwartwise course my chainless pilot laid for me.