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In some senses, aslant is marked as archaic, literary. Watch for register when choosing this word.
aslant
/əˈslænt/
adj 1adv 1prep 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
light, over
VERB + ASLANT
grows, led, uprooted
ASLANT + NOUN
brook, goats, hill, mud
PREP.
through
Definitions
adj
1
Slanting.
Near-synonym: askance
As for the manner and fashion of the cut [when pruning grapevines], it ought alwaies to be aslant, like a goats foot, that no drops of raine may settle and rest thereupon, but that euery shower may soon shoot off:
adv
1
At a slant.
The Shaft that slightly was impress’d, Now from his heavy Fall with weight increas’d, Drove through his Neck, aslant,
It [the light] led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog;
prep
1
Diagonally over or across.
There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
Ye Ladies of Lapland who beesoms bestride, Or, pair’d in Witch Whiskeys, aslant the Moon slide;
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Near-synonym: askance
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As for the manner and fashion of the cut [when pruning grapevines], it ought alwaies to be aslant, like a goats foot, that no drops of raine may settle and rest thereupon, but that euery shower may so
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But their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans; nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians; nor from up to down, like the Chinese; no
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The Shaft that slightly was impress’d, Now from his heavy Fall with weight increas’d, Drove through his Neck, aslant,
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It [the light] led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog;
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1914, Constance Garnett (translator), Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1917, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 321, A wall with three windows looking out on to the canal r
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