athwartships

Its compartment ran athwartships from one side of the ship to the other.

They turned down a passageway athwartships and descended a ladder.

With a breadth of 54 metres, it can carry 21 containers across, athwartships.

Beam - a timber similar in use to a floor joist, which runs from one side of the hull to the other athwartships.

The shrouds serve a similar function but extend on each side of the mast and provide support in the athwartships direction.

A junk rigged boat can let its sails out athwartships (and beyond.)

At the end of the athwartships alleyway he stopped and found the door of the lounge bolted open.

Attached to the keel are frames that extend athwartships (from side to side).

The overhanging cabin top acts like a dodger and is large enough for an adult to sit athwartships out of the weather.

Always mount the barograph athwartships so that the pen will be less likely to swing off the chart when the ship is rolling.

Individual compartments are referred to by the tank number and the athwartships position, such as "one port", "three starboard", or "six center."

The deck is drawn flat athwartships.

If it runs from the centreline to either the port or starboard side, it is said to lie athwartships.

Transverse frames extend athwartships from (normal to) the keel and at specified distances apart.

Drives were at the ends of crossbars athwartships amidship, turning the dumbbell into a giant jack.

My apologies for not asking you sooner," he said, gesturing to a small settee built athwartships against a bulkhead. "

I huddle athwartships, getting as far forward as I dare in an effort to stay dry while also trying to keep the stern down.

At all times except when whales were alongside, this bench was securely lashed athwartships against the rear of the Try-works.

Ursa suffered a damaged bow, while Battleaxe suffered more consequentially, being struck athwartships.

The forward superstructure block incorporated a large hangar opening onto an athwartships catapult between the superstructure blocks.

The sharpie's bottom was planked athwartships with planking of the same thickness as the sides and of 6 to 8 inches in width.

This was an American-type scraper truck with floor doors for dumping its load and it had been lashed athwartships across No. 2 hatch cover.

Square rig features sails set square to the mast from a yard, a spar running transversely in relation to the hull (athwartships).

In the 1880's that part of the bulkhead above the step was made of vertical staving that curved athwartships, but this feature was later eliminated.