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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Crosswise \Cross"wise'\ (-w?z'), adverb In the form of a cross; across; transversely. --Longfellow.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
crosswise
adjective
1: lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction; "a crosswise street"; "the crosswise dimension" [ant: {lengthwise}]
2: in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross
adverb
1: not in the intended manner; "things are going crosswise"
2: transversely; "the marble slabs were cut across" [syn: {across}, {crossways}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "crosswise": across, across the grain, athwart, athwartships, awkward, bendwise, bias, biased, biaswise, bulky, catercorner, catercornered, choking, clumsy, constrictive, contrariwise, contrary, contrawise, counterproductive, crisscross, cross, cross-grained, crossing, crossway, crossways, cumbersome, diagonal, hindering, hindersome, hulking, hulky, impractical, in the way, inconvenient, inhibiting, inhibitive, interrupting, interruptive, kittycorner, oblique, obliquely, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent, occlusive, overthwart, perverse, ponderous, repressive, restrictive, sideways, sidewise, slant, stifling, strangling, suppressive, thwart, thwartly, thwartways, transversal, transverse, transversely, traverse, troublesome, unhandy, unmanageable, unwieldy
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