_:vb7286847 "As for the manner and fashion of the cut [when pruning grapevines], it ought alwaies to be aslant, like a goats foot, that no drops of raine may settle and rest thereupon, but that euery shower may soon shoot off:"@en . . _:vb7286846 "Near-synonym: askance"@en . _:vb7286849 "1851 November 13, Herman Melville, chapter 81, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, \u2192OCLC, page 400:"@en . _:vb7286848 "But their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans; nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians; nor from up to down, like the Chinese; nor from down to up, like the Cascagians; but aslant from one Corner of the Paper to the other, like Ladies in England."@en . . _:vb7286850 "1961, Walker Percy, The Moviegoer\u200E[1], New York: Avon, published 1980, Part 3, Chapter 1, p. 107:"@en . . _:vb7286847 "1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], \u201C[Book XVII.] 22.\u201D, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus.\u00A0[\u2026], London: [\u2026] Adam Islip, \u2192OCLC, page 533:"@en . . _:vb7286849 "Meantime everything in the Pequod was aslant. To cross to the other side of the deck was like walking up the steep gabled roof of a house."@en . . _:vb7286845 . . . . _:vb7286845 "(archaic, literary) Slanting."@en . _:vb7286850 . "1" . . _:vb7286848 . . . _:vb7286848 "1726 October 27, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. [\u2026] [Gulliver\u2019s Travels], London: [\u2026] Benj[amin] Motte,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, page 94:"@en . _:vb7286849 . _:vb7286846 . . _:vb7286850 "Now she stands musing on the beach, leg locked, pelvis aslant, thumb and forefingers propped along the iliac crest and lightly, propped lightly as an athlete."@en . _:vb7286847 . .