Athwartship

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  • ad. athwartships
    • Word Usage
    "I believe, the mortification he felt at the Arabs having licked us gave him more pain than the damage done to his legs by the ball of the matchlock, which had taken him athwartship through the fleshy part of his understandings -- breaking no bones, but crippling him all the same."
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