aslant

aslant is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. [The shaft] drove through his neck aslant. Dryden.
  2. 2.In a slanting direction over; athwart. There is a willow grows aslant a brook. Shak.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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