across lots
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.73 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
Alternative form of cross lots (“via a shortcut”).
Example Sentences
- "You're a leveller I see, and wouldn't mind knocking me down flat as a pancake, if so be you could run away and get out of this scrape — you're a 'grarium, and would cut across the lot like a streak of lightning if you had a chance."
- "An' jest ez they wuz settin' down / To take their noonin', Joe looked roun' / And see (acrost lots in a pond / That warn't mor'n twenty rod beyond) / A goose that on the water sot / Ez ef awaitin' to be shot."
- "I swore in Nauvoo, when my enemies were looking me in the face, that I would send them to hell across lots if they meddled with me; and I ask no more odds of all hell today!"
- "She chose to go 'cross lots, not because in this case it was nearer than the road, but because it seemed impossible to go another way."