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acrost, adv. and prep. U.S. dial. and colloq.|əˈkrɒst|
[f. across adv. and prep. + inorganic -t.]
A. adv. Across; from side to side.
1779W. McKendry Jrnl. 6 Sept. in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1886) II. 467 The Lake..is..about 8 miles acrost. 1846F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1856) vii. 77 Kier said he heered her stretch her neck acrost and whisper. 1908Dialect Notes (Boston, Mass.) III. 285.
B. prep. Across; come acrost, come upon.
1759in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1882) XIX. 145 Ye enemy fird at our men a Crost ye River. 1831Louisville (Ky.) Advertiser 17 Oct., I came acrost a feller..fast asleep. 1852Stowe Uncle Tom xxii, A good, round, school-boy hand, that Tom said might be read ‘most acrost the room’. 1906F. Lynde Quickening 2 A-smashin' the whisky jug acrost the wagon tire. |