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Acrosst vs Crosst - What's the difference?

acrosst | crosst |

As an adverb acrosst

is {{l/en|across}.

As a preposition acrosst

is {{l/en|across}.

As a verb crosst is

past tense of cross.

acrosst

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (obsolete)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1923 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb , title=From Place to Place , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn=9781613106532 , page= , passage=Emily steps back behind a rope that a couple of hands stretches acrosst' the stage; and then a couple more hands shoves a wooden runaway ' acrosst the orchestra rail … }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2003 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=September Black , title=Run Naked in the Wind , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=iUniverse , isbn=9780595273645 , page=110 , passage=Up and down them hills and hollers and out acrosst that Injun country, like the devil was after 'em. }}

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (obsolete)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2006 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=J. Marie Darden , title=Finding Dignity , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Simon and Schuster , isbn=9781593090517 , page=107 , passage=Their family worked the land behind that horse farm acrosst from where your great-grannie and all us used to live. }}

    crosst

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (cross)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2009 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Noeleen McIlvenna , quotee=journal, 1711 , title=A Very Mutinous People , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press , isbn=9780807832868 , page=18 , passage=In this 6 mile we Crosst several miring branches in which we were all terribly bedaubed … Having almost spent the day in this toilsome tho short Journey. }}