lay+athwart
1traverse — I. ad. Athwart, crosswise, cross. II. a. Lying across, cross. III. v. a. 1. Cross, lay athwart, thwart. 2. Thwart, obstruct, cross in opposition, counteract, frustrate, defeat, contravene. 3. Pass, travel over, wander over, cross in travelling,… …
2Battle of Rocroi — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Rocroi partof=the Thirty Years War caption= Duc d Enghien at the Battle of Rocroi date=May 19, 1643 place=Rocroi, France result=Decisive French victory combatant1= combatant2= commander1=Duc d Enghien… …
3Peter I, Duke of Brittany — Pierre Mauclerc (c. 1190 ndash;1251), also known as Peter of Dreux or Pierre de Dreux, was duke of Brittany (in right of his wife) from 1213 to 1221, then regent of the duchy (for his minor son) from 1221 to 1237.He was the second son of Robert… …
4USS Trigger (SS-237) — was a Gato class submarine, the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the triggerfish, any of numerous deep bodied fishes of warm seas having an anterior dorsal fin with two or three stout erectile spines. Trigger s keel was laid… …
5USS White Plains (CVE-66) — was an Casablanca class escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was laid down on 11 February 1943 at Vancouver, Washington, by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company, Inc., under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1103) as Elbour Bay (ACV… …
6Burgers, Thomas François — ▪ president of Transvaal born April 15, 1834, near Graaff Reinet, Cape Colony [now in South Africa] died December 9, 1881, Richmond, Transvaal theologian and controversial president of the Transvaal who in 1877 allowed the British to annex… …
7Mariana (poem) — Illustration by William Britten. Mariana is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson published in 1830. The poem follows a common theme in much of Tennyson s work that of despondent isolation. The subject of Mariana is a woman who continuously laments her …
8pre-Columbian civilizations — Introduction the aboriginal American Indian (Mesoamerican Indian) cultures that evolved in Meso America (part of Mexico and Central America) and the Andean region (western South America) prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th …
9Glossary of nautical terms — This is a glossary of nautical terms; some remain current, many date from the 17th 19th century. See also Wiktionary s nautical terms, Category:Nautical terms, and Nautical metaphors in English. Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R …
10Break bulk cargo — In shipping, break bulk cargo or general cargo is a term that covers a great variety of goods that must be loaded individually, and not in shipping containers nor in bulk as with oil or grain. Ships that carry this sort of cargo are often called… …
