ADJECTIVE
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extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
transversal vibrations
transverse colon
from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully
cross members should be all steel
How To Use thwartwise In A Sentence
- But a kedge and halser, stretched thwartwise to a neighboring crag, and jammed fast in a crevice, served in moderate weather to keep us tolerably right. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
