Definition of "aslope" []

• At a slope or slant. (adverb)

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• "Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind."
• "This place is supposed to lie in the confines of Shropshire aloft vpon the top of an high hill there, enuironed with a triple rampire and ditch of great depth, hauing thrée entries into it, not directlie one against an other, but aslope."
• "Already the sun is aslope, high still in a pale hot sky, 5"