Thwarts is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for THWARTS in dictionary:

VERB:
• THWART, to cross the path of, obstruct
• prevent (someone) from accomplishing something
• oppose (a plan, attempt, or ambition) successfully
PREPOSITION:
• from one side to another side of; across
NOUN:
• a structural crosspiece forming a seat for a rower in a boat.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to prevent the accomplishment of

Words related to THWARTS

thwart12 thwarted15 thwarting16

Words that contain THWARTS

thwartship21 athwartship22 overthwarts20 thwartships22 athwartships23

How to use THWARTS in a sentence

• Shalah ran the sloop into a little creek so overgrown with vines that we had to lie flat on the thwarts to enter.
• At that, as may be imagined, we were very greatly excited, and stood upon the thwarts that we might get better view of her.
• Whatsoever thwarts, or puts me out of my way, brings death into my mind.
• His men left off rowing, and they pulled the woman aboard their boat, and laid her on one of the thwarts.
• The dew gathered and lay sparkling on the thwarts as they touched the garden-steps, and they mounted and traversed together the alleys of odorous dark.
• Under the canvas flaps along the thwarts, ready to hand for the rowers, were laid five of the Lee-Enfields.
• They were laid along the middle of the thwarts so as to leave room to sit by the side of them.
• Then he directed the boys to let the oars down again, gently, to their places along the thwarts, and put the crew at ease.
• He struck on the thwarts, rolled off into the water, and was no more seen.
• I saw him show her how to make a boat of one, putting in sticks for the thwarts.
• He seized Sir George, to salute him in Maori fashion, and the roll of the boat sent them both sprawling among the thwarts.
• I caught his arm before he could strike, and we fell together upon the thwarts of the boat, locked in a deadly embrace.
• The Coxswain will have ready the thwarts, oars, masts and sails.
• The pole, fastened to a cross-piece in the thwarts, was not a mast, but had evidently been shipped in order to give speedy access to the deck by climbing.
• The bow of a long black boat was resting on the sand, and six closely-blindfolded men were sitting on the thwarts with oars out.
• Macfarlane was helping me, but he was hit by a bullet and dropped across the thwarts.
• Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection.
• Stepping on one of the forward thwarts, in her eagerness to persuade him to return, he sprang past her, jerked away the chain, and pushed off before she could escape.
• Incidents of a kind casting ridicule on our unfortunate nature instead of our conventional life, provoke derisive laughter, which thwarts the Comic idea.
• Indeed nearly all the characters of perfection, as culture teaches us to fix them, meet in this country with some powerful tendency which thwarts them and sets them at defiance.
• One boat was made to fit within the other, the thwarts of the larger, or outer one, being taken out.
• As soon as the moon had gone down, Frank seated himself in the stern of the canoe, and his companions stretched themselves out under the thwarts, as much out of sight as possible.
• We cut young trees to make our poles and thwarts, Barked the white spruce to weatherfend the roof, Then struck a light and kindled the camp-fire.
• Lake, a quiet, odd sort of a boy, sat on one of the middle thwarts managing the sails.
• I am beginning to hate my own father, and everybody else that thwarts my love.
• By poetic analogy we may include in the social world whatever helps or thwarts our development, and is auxiliary to the energies of the soul, even if that object be inanimate.
• No existence is of moment to a man, not even his own, unless it touches his will and fulfils or thwarts his intent.
• It lay behind a low piece of coral rock, fastened to an iron ring by means of a rope, while the oars lay in readiness on the thwarts.
• We cut young trees to make our poles and thwarts, Barked the white spruce to weatherfend the roof, Then struck a light, and kindled the camp-fire.

Similar words containing THWART without suffix s

thwart12 athwart13 thwarted15 thwarter14 thwartly17 thwarters15 thwarting16 overthwart19 thwartedly20 thwartings17 thwartship21 thwartways22 thwartwise19 athwartship22 overthwarts20 thwartingly21 thwartships22 athwartships23 overthwarted22 overthwarting23

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