Crossword clues for withershins
withershins
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see widdershins.
Wiktionary
adv. anticlockwise, in the contrary direction, especially to the left or opposite to the direction of the sun.
Wikipedia
Withershins is the follow-up LP to Smoosh's 2006 release of Free To Stay. The album was released on June 29, 2010. It was not released on any official record label, but independently via internet distribution site bandcamp.com and is available for free download. It is also available on iTunes with its original title, The World's Not Bad.
Usage examples of "withershins".
Sir Walter Scott with a bugle blast worth a thousand men the Lover of Poetry went down with a Rebel bullet through his heart, his prospect of a battle gone withershins in a tumultuous rout down the steep bluff for four small boats to carry them back across the wide river white as a hailstorm with bullets fired from the abandoned heights and of those thousand men nine hundred lost, shot, drowned, or left for prisoners on the dark Virginia shore.
The world might go withershins, but here was a cornerstone which could not be removed, an anvil which had worn out many hammers.