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cross lots, cross-lots, advb. phr. U.S.
Also cross-lot.
[See cross prep. and lot n. 6 a.]
By a short cut. Also attrib.
1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 138 They could push on, a pooty, tedious, clever bit furder, cross lots—they could. 1874‘Mark Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xxi. 154 The cross-lots path she traversed to the Seminary. 1889‘Mark Twain’ Yankee xx. 241 After three hours of awful crosslot riding he had overhauled his game. 1922A. Brown Old Crow 469 They might even go over to Mountain Brook by the path ‘ 'cross lots’. |