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Aslant

//əˈslænt// adj, adv, prep

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Slanting. archaic, literary

    "Near-synonym: askance"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having an oblique or slanted direction wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    At a slant. archaic, literary

    "The Shaft that slightly was impress’d, Now from his heavy Fall with weight increas’d, Drove through his Neck, aslant,"

Adverb
  1. 1
    at an oblique angle wordnet
  2. 2
    over or across in a slanting direction wordnet
Preposition
  1. 1
    Diagonally over or across. archaic, literary

    "There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English aslant (“at an angle, in a curve; from the side, deviously”), from on slante; equivalent to a- + slant.

Etymology 2

From Middle English aslant (“at an angle, in a curve; from the side, deviously”), from on slante; equivalent to a- + slant.

Etymology 3

From Middle English aslant (“at an angle, in a curve; from the side, deviously”), from on slante; equivalent to a- + slant.

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