Transverse; being across something else. Mov’d contrary with thwart obliquities.

thwort. To cross; to be, lie or come across the direction of something. Swift as a shooting star/ . In autumn thwarts the night.

To cross, aS a purpose; to oppose; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. We say, to thwart a purpose, design or inclination; or to thwart a person. If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other.

To be in opposition.

The seat or bench of a boat on which the rowers sit.