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, when viewed cross-sectionally, a universal polygon of twelve sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference

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 thwartship partition aft of them forming three sides to the encroaching fourth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking Point] Reference

Lanyard moved down to the junction of the thwartship passage with the fore-and-aft alleyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf] Reference

To right and left on a thwartship line just back of them towered the chimneys softly giving out their titanic respirations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi] Reference

A group of first-class passengers, leaning on the thwartship rails close by, looked on, with complacent satisfaction or half-contemptuous pity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters of the Wheat-Lands] Reference

Just forward of the wheels was a thwartship casemate containing two 24-pound howitzers pointing forward and intended to sweep the decks if boarders should get possession.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3.] Reference

Abaft the wheels there was another thwartship casemate, sides and ends also sloping, in which were two 30-pound Parrott rifles training from aft to four points on the quarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3.] Reference