The Predil Pass blockhouse stood athwart Seras' road from the south. Barrels should be stowed fore and aft and not athwart ships. Darwen stands athwart the Ribble Valley railway line, operated by Northern. Ong approaches research from vantage points outside or athwart the United States. The cavalrymen had encountered two new regiments, one athwart each axis of advance. The duchy lay athwart the sea lanes between England and the English territories in Gascony. "Lynch" next cruised athwart the transatlantic shipping lanes. But the holding actions gave Washington time to deploy Lord Stirling's division athwart Clinton's advance. Lileks also writes a regular column ("Athwart") for "National Review". The Detroit region was called "Tio-sahr-ondion", "where it is beaver dams athwart many".