Usually means: Across the vessel's width direction.
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  1. thwartships: Merriam-Webster
  2. thwartships: Collins English Dictionary
  3. thwartships: Wordnik
  4. thwartships: Wiktionary
  5. thwartships: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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  1. THWARTSHIPS: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  2. Thwartships, Thwartships: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (Thwartships)

adverb:  Alternative form of athwartships [(nautical) Across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel.]

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