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aslant
(archaic, literary) Slanting.
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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; nor from down to up, like the Cascagians; but aslant from one Corner of the Paper to the other, like Ladies in England.
Meantime everything in the Pequod was aslant. To cross to the other side of the deck was like walking up the steep gabled roof of a house.
(archaic, literary) At a slant.
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It [the light] led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog;
(archaic, literary) Diagonally over or across.
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There is a willow grows aslant a brook, / That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
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