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aslant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective aslant has 1 sense
- aslant(s = adj.all) aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping - having an oblique or slanted direction; Array
Adverbial aslant has 2 senses
- aslant(r = adv.all) Array - over or across in a slanting direction; Array
- aslant(r = adv.all) athwart, obliquely - at an oblique angle; "the sun shone aslant into his face"
CIDE DICTIONARY
aslant, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + slant.].
Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. [1913 Webster]
"[The shaft] drove through his neck aslant."
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aslant, prep.
In a slanting direction over; athwart. [1913 Webster]
"There is a willow grows aslant a brook."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
aslant, adv. & prep.
--adv. obliquely or at a slant.
--prep. obliquely across (lay aslant the path).
--adv. obliquely or at a slant.
--prep. obliquely across (lay aslant the path).
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