Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of cross lots (“via a shortcut”).
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.
1899, Alice Brown, “A Last Assembling”, in Tiverton Tales3 more examples
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.
1838, Joseph Clay Neal, “Fydget Fyxington”, in Charcoal Sketches, Book One, Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, published 1865, page 221An' 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.
1848, James Russell Lowell, “The Two Gunners”, in The Biglow PapersI 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!
1857 July 26, Brigham Young, Sermon at the Bowery in Salt Lake City
Rhymes & wordplay
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