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across lots

across lots is the alternative form of cross lots.

Meaning of cross lots

Prepositional phrase

  1. Across the fields; by way of a shortcut.
    • "I didn't see Crosby go by, did you?"¶ "He'd have had to foot it by the path 'cross-lots," replied Ezra, gravely, from the doorstep. "He's sold his hoss."1890, Sarah Orne Jewett, “Law Lane”, in Tales of New England, page 189

Words that rhyme with across lots

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Questions about across lots

What is across lots the alternative form of?
Across lots is the alternative form of cross lots.

Words near across lots in the dictionary

  1. acrospores
  2. acrosporous
  3. across
  4. across country
  5. across from
  6. across lots
  7. across the board
  8. across the ditch
  9. across the line
  10. across the pond
  11. across the way

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Adapted from Wiktionary: across lots (page history and authors); cross lots (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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