athwart
preposition
[ əˈθwɔːt ]
• from side to side of; across.
• "a counter was placed athwart the entrance"
• in opposition to; counter to.
• "these statistics run sharply athwart conventional presumptions"
athwart
adverb
• across from side to side; transversely.
• "one table running athwart was all the room would hold"
• so as to be perverse or contradictory.
• "our words ran athwart and we ended up at cross purposes"
Origin:
late Middle English: from a-2 ‘on’ + thwart.
