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vinosti yli, viistoon, vinosti poikittain puhekieltä From side to side; across.

Above, the stars appeared to move slowly athwart.

We placed one log on the ground, and another athwart, forming a crude cross.

puhekieltä Across the path (of something).

a fleet standing athwart our course

(quote-journal)|date=7 September 2014|passage=And should the moon happen to hit its ever-shifting orbital perigee at the same time that it lies athwart from the sun, we are treated to a so-called supermoon, a full moon that can seem close enough to embrace – as much as 12 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than the average full moon.
puhekieltä From one side to the other side of.

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(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queen), II.iii:
Knit with a golden bauldricke, which forelay / Athwart her snowy brest, and did diuide / Her daintie paps
(w) (1809-1892)
At eve the beetle boometh / Athwart the thicket lone.
puhekieltä across Across the line of a ship's course or across its deck.
puhekieltä Across the path or course of; opposing.
1902, (w), (w), Folio Society 2008, p.283:
It is the voice of human experience within us, judging and condemning all gods that stand athwart the pathway along which it feels itself to be advancing.

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