Thwart

Which elſe to ſeveral Sphears thou muſt aſcribe, Mov'd contrarie with thwart obliquities, Or ſave the Sun his labour, and that ſwift Nocturnal and Diurnal rhomb ſuppos'd, Inviſible elſe above all Starrs, the Wheele Of Day and Night; […]

[…] harke Nature, heare deere Goddeſſe, ſuſpend thy purpoſe, if thou did'ſt intend to make this creature fruitful into her wombe, conuey ſterility, drie vp in hir the organs of increaſe, and from her derogate body neuer ſpring a babe to honour her, if ſhee muſt teeme, create her childe of ſpleene, that it may liue and bee a thourt diſuetur'd^([sic – meaning disnatured]) torment to her, […]

[…] and it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […]

With adverſe blaſt up-turns them from the South Notus and Afer black with thundrous Clouds From Serraliona; thwart of theſe as fierce Forth ruſh the Levant and the Ponent VVindes Eurus and Zephir with their lateral noiſe, Sirocco, and Libecchio.

Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the thunderstorm.

The police thwarted the would-be assassin.

If thou grieueſt that beeing the daughter of a Prince, and enuie thwarteth thée with ſuch hard exigents, thinke that royaltie is a faire marke; that Crownes haue croſſes when mirth is in Cottages; that the fairer the Roſe is, the ſooner it is bitten with Catterpillers; […]

The Underſtanding and Will never diſagreed; for the Propoſals of the one never thwarted the Inclinations of the other.

Hear ye the serf I bred, begin to reckon Upon his rights and pleasure! Who am I— Thou abject, who am I, whose will thou thwartest?

Not unnaturally, "Auntie" took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.

The film ends with the colorful deaths of Nico's enemies after he thwarts their attempts to assassinate a U.S. Senator investigating ties between drug dealers and the CIA.

More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

Everton were now firmly on the back foot and it required some sharp work from Johnny Heitinga and Phil Jagielka to thwart [Theo] Walcott and Thomas Vermaelen.

An arrow thwarts the air.

Thither came Uriel, gliding through the Eeven On a Sun beam, ſwift as a ſhooting Starr In Autumn thwarts the night, […]

The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row.

When taking his seat in a boat, the learner should first observe that the thwart is firmly fixed, and that the mat upon it is securely tied to that part of it which is farthest from his rowlock.

Jane Porter had been the first of those in the lifeboat to awaken the morning after the wreck of the Lady Alice. The other members of the party were asleep upon the thwarts or huddled in cramped positions in the bottom of the boat.

A well-made dugout canoe rarely needs a thwart.

A conſiderable number of thwarts were laid from gunwale to gunwale, to which they were ſecurely laſhed on each ſide, as a ſtrengthening to the boat [a canoe].

My barge was sixty feet in length, and not more than twelve in the widest part; by taking away one thwart beam near the stern, laying a floor two feet below the gunwale, and raising an arched roof about seven feet above the floor, a commodious room was formed, fourteen feet long, and ten wide, with a closet behind it; […]

I looked down into the Old Town [a canoe]; there was no yoke, only a straight ash thwart.