| 释义 |
crossways, adv.|ˈkrɒsweɪz, ˈkrɔːs-|
[cross- 4 + -ways.]
= crosswise.
1564in Hawkins' Voy. (1878) 18 Which maketh their townes crosse waies. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 272 margin, Of pleasures which men seeke crossewayes. 1665Hooke Microgr. 101 Breaking off a very thin sliver of the Coal cross-ways. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 52 a, A defect that runs crossways of the beam. 1871tr. Schellen's Spectr. Anal. ix. 24 A series of dark stripes breaking crossways through the light. |