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Athwart the tide
| Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
See across the tide.
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Atlantides, английский
The daughters of atlas; a name of the pleiades.
Athwart, английский
The transverse direction; anything extending or across the line of a ship`s course.—athwart hawse, a vessel, boat, or floating lumber accidentally drifted across the stem of a ship, the transverse position of the drift being understood.—athwart the fore-foot, just before the stem; ships fire a shot in this direction to arrest a stranger, and make her bring-to.—athwart ships, in the direction of the beam; from side to side: in opposition to fore-and-aft.
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