| 单词 | athwart the fore foot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasathwart the fore foot 3. Nautical. Across or transversely to the course or direction of. †athwart the fore foot: (a cannon-ball fired) across in front of a ship's bows, as a signal for her to bring to. to run athwart: to run into sidewise; cf. A. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [preposition] > transversely to course or direction of athwart1693 1693 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 70 A French privateer..whom he run athawart and sunk him. 1693 London Gaz. No. 2926/3 The Wind being Northerly..with a great Swell and strong Tide; The Frigats were obliged to Moor athwart it. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §167 (note) A vessel..being laid athwart the Jetty Head. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. iii. 19 Athwart the steamer's bows. < as lemmas |
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