sklent

[ sklent ]

/ sklɛnt /

Scot. and North England

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any slanting surface, as a slope.

a sideways or oblique movement.

a sideways glance.

to move or lie on a slant.

to deviate from a straight course.

to deviate from the truth; lie.

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“Evoke” and “invoke” both derive from the same Latin root “vocāre.”

1505–15; earlier sklente (v.), variant of Middle English slenten to slant

I gae a sklent wi my ee to Daniel Roy Macpherson, an he was leaned ower the back o the seat, and fan into a kink o laughing.
The Brownie of Bodsbeck, and Other Tales, Vol. II (of 2)|James Hogg