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Oblique; sloping. -- Slant"ing*ly, adv.

Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. [The shaft] drove through his neck aslant. Dryden.

A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast. [ Often used in the plural.]

Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.

Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.

Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined. It has a direction oblique to that of the former motion. Cheyne.

strip of wood to guide the carpenters in following the sheer plan. -- Sheer boom, a boom slanting across a stream to direct floating logs to one side. -- Sheer hulk. See Shear hulk, under Hulk. -- Sheer plan, or Sheer draught (Shipbuilding), a projection of the lines of a vessel on a vertical longitudinal plane pass…

r inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope. On the side of younder slanting hill. Dodsley.

To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.

m the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting. -- Slop"ing*ly, adv. The sloping land recedes into the clouds. Cowper.

One of the slanting supports under the guards of a steamboat.