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Portate :: Portate (a.) Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate..

Bend :: Bend (n.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base..

Bias :: Bias (adv.) In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias..

Bias :: Bias (a.) Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth..

Bendwise :: Bendwise (adv.) Diagonally.

Quarrel :: Quarrel (n.) A square of glass, esp. when set diagonally..

Cornerwise :: Cornerwise (adv.) With the corner in front; diagonally; not square.

Checkers :: Checkers (v.) A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them..

Ogive :: Ogive (n.) The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.

Crossgrained :: Crossgrained (a.) Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing..

Diagonally :: Diagonally (adv.) In a diagonal direction.

Port :: Port (v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms..

Arriswise :: Arriswise (adv.) Diagonally laid, as tiles; ridgewise..

Sprite :: Sprit (v. i.) A small boom, pole, or spar, which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally from the mast to the upper aftmost corner, which it is used to extend and elevate..

Poyntel :: Poyntel (n.) Paving or flooring made of small squares or lozenges set diagonally.

Dagger :: Dagger (n.) A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.

Springal :: Spring (v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

Cater :: Cater (v. t.) To cut diagonally.

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