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Fraught vs Thwart - What's the difference?

fraught | thwart |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between fraught and thwart

is that fraught is (obsolete) a ship's cargo, lading or freight while thwart is (obsolete) to move across or counter to; to cross.

As nouns the difference between fraught and thwart

is that fraught is (obsolete) the hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo while thwart is (nautical) a brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.

As verbs the difference between fraught and thwart

is that fraught is to load (a ship, cargo etc) while thwart is to prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.

As adjectives the difference between fraught and thwart

is that fraught is (of a cargo-carrier) laden while thwart is situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.

As an adverb thwart is

obliquely; transversely; athwart.

fraught

English

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.
  • (obsolete) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight
  • fraught money .
  • (obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
  • (obsolete) A ship's cargo, lading or freight.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (Scotland) A load; a burden.
  • (Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).
  • Derived terms

    * fraught-free

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To load (a ship, cargo etc.).
  • * 1610 , , by Shakespeare
  • Had I been any god of power, I would / Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er / It should the good ship so have swallow'd and / The fraughting souls within her.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a cargo-carrier) Laden.
  • * Shakespeare
  • a vessel of our country richly fraught
  • Furnished, equipped.
  • Loaded up, charged or accompanied.
  • * South
  • a discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech
  • * I. Taylor
  • enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits
  • * 2005 , .
  • all these matters are fraught with paradox, just as they always have been
  • Distressed.
  • a fraught relationship
  • * '>citation
  • References

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    thwart

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.
  • * South
  • The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other.
  • * , chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black), title=Internal Combustion
  • , chapter=2 citation , passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 10, author=David Ornstein, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Arsenal 1-0 Everton , passage=Everton were now firmly on the back foot and it required some sharp work from Johnny Heitinga and Phil Jagielka to thwart Walcott and Thomas Vermaelen.}}
  • (obsolete) To move across or counter to; to cross.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • Swift as a shooting star / In autumn thwarts the night.

    Synonyms

    * See also * foil, frustrate, impede, spoil

    Derived terms

    * athwart * athwartships * thwarter * thwartsome

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
  • A well made doughout canoe rarely needs a thwart .
  • (nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
  • The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
  • * Milton
  • Moved contrary with thwart obliquities.
  • (figurative) Perverse; crossgrained.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Obliquely; transversely; athwart.
  • (Milton)

    References