athwartships meaning
ENWAthwartships
- Adverb
- (nautical) Across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel.
- (nautical) Across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel.
Definition of athwartships in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
- Adverbs
Other Vocabulary
Look-Alike Words- en athwartship
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "athwartships" is an adverb, more specifically, an uncomparable adverb.