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Määritelmät
Adverbit
- (archaic) From side to side; across.
- (archaic) Across the path (of something).
Prepositiot
- (archaic) From one side to the other side of.
- (nautical) Across the line of a ship's course or across its deck.
- (archaic) Across the path or course of; opposing.
Esimerkit
- Above, the stars appeared to move slowly athwart.
- We placed one log on the ground, and another athwart, forming a crude cross.
- a fleet standing athwart our course
- And should the moon happen to hit its ever-shifting orbital perigee at the same time that it lies athwart from the sun, we are treated to a so-called supermoon, a full moon that can seem close enough to embrace – as much as 12 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than the average full moon.
- The stars moved slowly athwart the sky.
- Knit with a golden bauldricke, which forelay / Athwart her snowy brest, and did diuide / Her daintie paps
- At eve the beetle boometh / Athwart the thicket lone.
- The damaged mainmast fell athwart the deck, destroying the ship's boat.
- It is the voice of human experience within us, judging and condemning all gods that stand athwart the pathway along which it feels itself to be advancing.
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