acrook

C. Custance. Wife, why cal ye me wife? Sim Sure. Wife? this gear goth acrook.

c. 1553, Nicholas Udall, edited by Edward Arber, Roister Doister, Birmingham, published 1869, Act IV, Scene 3, p. 62

Loe, is not there the draught of some gold-sandy brooke That on this azure ground glydes (as it were) acrooke?

1625, “The Pillars, or fourth Booke of Noe”, in William L’Isle, transl., Part of Du Barts English and French, London: John Haviland, page 158

And night ten years, o’er rough and smooth, And up and down, and acrook and across, I lead my pupils by the nose,

1905, Albert G. Latham, transl., Goethe’s Faust, London: J.M. Dent, published 1908, Part 1, p. 25

"Arm acrook, too, a-thinkin’ thet in ther dark all cats is grey."

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 198

His knees were acrook and his feet lifted on their toes as if they were ready for flight.

1954, Eilís Dillon, chapter 3, in The San Sebastian, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, page 57