Definition of "thwartly" []

• Transversely; obliquely (adverb)

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• "At the court of King Arthur there came a young man and bigly made, and he was richly beseen: and he desired to be made knight of the king, but his over-garment sat over-thwartly, howbeit it was rich cloth of gold."