athwart

athwart has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• prep.. Across; from side to side of.
• prep.. Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course.
• adv.. Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely.
• adv.. Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely.
• adv.. at an oblique angle; "the sun shone aslant into his face"
• adv.. at right angles to the center line of a ship