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acrosst

acrosst adverb: across.

Adverb

acrosst (not comparable)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) across
    • Emily steps back behind a rope that a couple of hands stretches acrosst the stage; and then a couple more hands shoves a wooden runaway acrosst the orchestra rail …1923, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, From Place to Place, →ISBN
    • Up and down them hills and hollers and out acrosst that Injun country, like the devil was after 'em.2003, September Black, Run Naked in the Wind, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 110

Preposition

acrosst

  1. (obsolete) across
    • Their family worked the land behind that horse farm acrosst from where your great-grannie and all us used to live.2006, J. Marie Darden, Finding Dignity, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 107

Questions about acrosst

What does acrosst mean?
Acrosst means across.
What part of speech is acrosst?
Acrosst can be an adverb or a preposition.

Words near acrosst in the dictionary

  1. across the way
  2. across variable
  3. across variables
  4. across-the-board
  5. acrosses
  6. acrosst
  7. acrosswise
  8. acrost
  9. acrostatic
  10. acrostealgia
  11. acrostealgias

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