aslant

a-slant

adverb

At an angle or in a slanting, oblique direction.

"The morning light fell aslant across the floor."

preposition

Across or over something at an angle.

"He placed the plank aslant the ditch."

Thesaurus

Synonyms: slanting, diagonal, slanted, aslope, sloping, inclined, sloped, athwart, obliquely