This word is acceptable for play in the UK dictionary that is being used in the following games:

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Nautical, lying across the vessel.

"No one had noticed it, but they suddenly became aware that the almost-square cabin was now definitely rectangular, with the familiar controls, the communications wall, and the thwartship partition aft of them forming three sides to the encroaching fourth."