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The correct spelling is thwart.
How to pronounce thwart
/θwɔːt/
nounIPA: /θwɔːt/
Say it like: Thw-art
The correct spelling is thwart. A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit. For example: "The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row."
Usage Examples
“The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row.”
“A well-made dugout canoe rarely needs a thwart.”
“Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the thunderstorm.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
- 2.A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
- 3.An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.
verb
- 1.To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.
- 2.To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.
- 3.To hinder or obstruct by placing (something) in the way of; to block, to impede, to oppose.
- 4.To move (something) across or counter to; to cross.
adjective
- 1.Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.
- 2.Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn.
- 3.Of situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky.
adverb
- 1.Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.
preposition
- 1.Across, athwart.
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