aslant

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I was alone by the well where the shadow of the tree fell aslant, and the women had gone home with their brown earthen pitchers full to the brim.

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  1. adverb At a slant; obliquely.
  2. preposition Obliquely over or across: lay the paddle aslant the gunwales.

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  • Trazz came creaking up aslant, doing a laugh of surprise, tsss-tssss. —  The Great California Game—Lovejoy—Jonathan Gash
  • A wind had risen, unfelt in these recesses and on the weighty volume of the main sheet of falling water, but at its verge the fitful gusts diverted its downward course, tossing slender jets aslant, and sending now and again a shower of spray into the cavern. —  The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
  • Dashing aslant-wise, as before, the winged horse made another arrow-flight towards the Chimaera, and Bellerophon aimed another downright stroke at one of the two remaining heads, as he shot by. —  My First Cruise and Other stories
  • "The execrable Chimaera shall pay for this mischief, with his last head Then he shook the bridle, shouted loudly, and guided Pegasus, not aslant-wise as before, but straight at the monster's hideous front. —  My First Cruise and Other stories
  • Orion lies aslant, under the Bull's hoof; in his left hand grasping his club, and raising the other toward the Twins 3. —  The Ten Books on Architecture
 

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  1. Middle English aslante, o slante, aslonte, earlier on slonte, on slent; from a, on, + slant. Cf. Scots asklent, asclent.
 

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