Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse. / (figuratively, dated) Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn.

(obsolete) Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.

(archaic or poetic) Across, athwart.

(transitive) To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent. / (transitive, obsolete) To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.

(nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.

The act of thwacking; a strike or blow, especially with a flat implement. / A heavy slapping sound.

To hit with a flat implement. / To beat. / To fill to overflow.

(archaic) A piece of forest land cleared for agriculture or habitation; a clearing; assart

Alternative form of twaite

simple past tense and past participle of thwart