THWART:
• (a.) Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
• (a.) Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.
• (a.) Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.
• (prep.) Across; athwart.
• (n.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.
• (v. t.) To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air.
• (v. t.) To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.
• (v. i.) To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner.
• (v. i.) Hence, to be in opposition; to clash.