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Athwart :: Athwart (prep.) Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course..

Turnpike :: Turnpike (n.) A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate..

Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees..

Crossflow :: Crossflow (v. i.) To flow across, or in a contrary direction..

Thwart :: Thwart (a.) Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.

Jump :: "Jump (v. t.) To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch..

Scratch :: Scratch (v. t.) To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like..

Bierbalk :: Bierbalk (n.) A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals..

Transfluent :: Transfluent (a.) Flowing or running across or through; as, a transfluent stream..

"""cover-point " :: Cover-point (n.) The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports point..

Squinsy :: Squinch (n.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon..

Thwart :: Thwart (v. t.) To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air..

Racket :: Racket (n.) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches..

Overlay :: Overlay (v. t.) To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon..

Carbonade :: Carbonade (v. t.) To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil.

Sill :: Sill (n.) A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.

Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street.

Trance :: Trance (v. t.) To pass over or across; to traverse.

Diagonal :: Diagonal (a.) Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides.

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