cross lots
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Across the fields; by way of a shortcut.
- "I didn't see Crosby go by, did you?"¶ "He'd have had to foot it by the path 'cross-lots," replied Ezra, gravely, from the doorstep. "He's sold his hoss."1890, Sarah Orne Jewett, “Law Lane”, in Tales of New England, page 189:
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