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cross lots

cross lots prepositional phrase: across the fields; by way of a shortcut.

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

Forms of cross lots

alternative formacross lots

Questions about cross lots

What does cross lots mean?
Cross lots means across the fields; by way of a shortcut.
What part of speech is cross lots?
Cross lots is a prepositional phrase.

Words near cross lots in the dictionary

  1. cross junction
  2. cross junctions
  3. Cross Keys
  4. cross lay
  5. cross lays
  6. cross lots
  7. cross moline
  8. cross multiplication
  9. cross multiplications
  10. cross my heart
  11. cross my heart and hope to die

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