Определение слова «aslant» на английский

adjective

1. (archaic, literary) Slanting.

   • Near-synonym: askance

adverb

1. (archaic, literary) At a slant.

   • 1914, Constance Garnett (translator), Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1917, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 321, A wall with three windows looking out on to the canal ran aslant so that one corner formed a very acute angle, and it was difficult to see in it without very strong light.

preposition

1. (archaic, literary) Diagonally over or across.