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- Adverb. (archaic) From side to side; across.
- Adverb. (archaic) Across the path (of something).
- Preposition. (archaic) From one side to the other side of.
- Preposition. (nautical) Across the line of a ship's course or across its deck.
- Preposition. (archaic) Across the path or course of; opposing.
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