| Back | athwart /uh-THWART/ |
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| Front | adverb, preposition From side to side of; across; against. [From a- (on, into, toward) + thwart, from Old Norse thvert, neuter of thverr (transverse). Earliest documented use: 1470.] “He shuffled athwart, keeping one eye ahead vigilantly.” - Joseph Conrad; Heart of Darkness; Blackwood’s Magazine; 1899. |
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