A*slant" (#), adv. & a. [Pref. a- + slant.]
Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely.
[The shaft] drove through his neck aslant.
Dryden.
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A*slant", prep.
In a slanting direction over; athwart.
There is a willow grows aslant a brook.
Shak.
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