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Definition of Thwarts

1. thwart [v] - See also: thwart

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Thwarts

thwacked thwacker thwackers thwacking thwacks thwaite thwaite thwaites thwart thwarted

thwarter thwarter thwarters thwarting thwartly thwarts (current term) thwartwise Thy thy Thygeson's disease

thyine thyine wood thylacine thylacine thylacines Thylacinus Thylacinus cynocephalus thylacitis thylakoid thylakoid

Literary usage of Thwarts

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1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... and are provided with end air chambers and longitudinal air coses on each »idc under the thwarts. installed in the after atr chamber, with the starting ..."

2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"The rows of crouching ghosts along the thwarts He scattered, cleared a passage, and gave room To great ^Eneas. The light shallop groaned n-^^~ Beneath his ..."

3. Memoirs of the Court of England, from the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of by John Heneage Jesse (1846)
"She thwarts her mother's schemes by falling in love with the son of a Hamburgh merchant.—She marries him, in order to preserve her character. ..."

4. A History of England by James Franck Bright (1880)
"... a energy r • -iii , , ^ ji ii thwarts her a considerable armament to demand the restoration of double-dealing. ..."

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