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Crossways

adv, name, noun

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    transversely; crosswise not-comparable

    "I stared and stared again - he was perfectly right - the torches that were to light our entertainment were human mummies from the caves! On rushed the bearers of the flaming corpses, and, meeting at a spot about twenty paces in front of us, built their ghastly burdens crossways into a huge bonfire."

Adverb
  1. 1
    transversely wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A place in Britain:; A village and civil parish between Dorchester and Wool, Dorset (OS grid ref SY7688).
  2. 2
    A place in Britain:; A hamlet in Thornbury parish, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire (OS red ref ST6590).
  3. 3
    A place in Britain:; A hamlet in Crucorney community, Monmouthshire (OS grid ref SO3220; not to be confused with Crossway in the same county).
  4. 4
    A place in Britain:; A neighbourhood at a crossroads in Churt parish, Waverley borough, Surrey (OS grid ref SU8538).
Noun
  1. 1
    plural of crossway form-of, plural

Etymology

From cross + -ways.

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