| 单词 | thwart the hawse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthwart the hawse (†halse) 2. Across the course or direction of; = athwart prep. 3 thwart the hawse (†halse), across the stem of a ship. Chiefly Nautical. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > across [preposition] > across the course or direction of thwart1495 society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [phrase] > across the stem of a ship thwart the hawse (halse)1620 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) v. vi. sig. gv/1 Two holowe synewes whiche ben callyd Optici..come eyther thwart other, and ben Ioyned in a poynte. 1620 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 220 Intending with her to laie the Portingall admirall thwart the halse and soe to burne both together. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxiv. 54 For foure Leagues into the Sea (thwart it) lye banks of sand. 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved viii. 91 Fibres, that cross and go thwart one another. < as lemmas |
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