Transversely

Usage examples of crosswise.

Blade took a step backward, parried a downcut with the short-sword, slashed hard crosswise with the broadsword.

The slaves now used oak levers to raise one end of the capstone and Saban shoved a long timber underneath it, crosswise to the timbers in the bottom layer.

In process of time, the rains wash off all the turf and grass aforesaid, move the logs hither and thither, in picturesque positions, up, down and crosswise, with divers chasms and ruts of black mud intervening.

He killed the eels with a crosswise incision in the backs of their necks and Mama, who had an over-lively imagination, had to sit down on the sofa, promptly followed by Jan Bronski.

There were strips of corduroy road across marshes, made by laying logs crosswise and covering them with brush and mud.

So that the labyrinthine entanglement of these four streets sufficed to make, in a space of four hundred square yards, between the markets and the Rue Saint Denis, in one direction, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue des Prêcheurs in the other direction, seven islets of houses, oddly intersecting, of various sizes, placed crosswise and as if by chance, and separated but slightly, like blocks of stone in a stone yard, by narrow crevices.

The two loose ends of the scarf were tucked crosswise beneath the lapels of the square-cut double-breasted jacket.

Brecie's weapon was an elongated, roughly diamond-shaped, crosswise section of leg bone, with the knobby epiphysis at the end removed and the edge sharpened.

The ordonnance colors, quartered crosswise, violet and dead leaf, with a sprinkling of golden fleurs-de-lis, left the white-colored flag, with its fleurdelisee cross, to dominate over the whole.

And at the end of the hall, crosswise, were the tables for the housecarls, and the men of the house, and of the thanes who were guests.

I don't want to have Bren jumping up and down every time somebody looks crosswise at her.

I cut a slot across the frame, sank the leaf spring (the smallest of the leaf springs) into it crosswise and did as good a job of gluing it there as I could.

Then I was lying crosswise on the Zodiac, random pieces of Gallagher's trash pile were splashing into the water around us, and we were headed back to the Blowfish.

It also happened that the hurricane was blowing crosswise of the hatch opening, which treated us to a Venturi effect.