"acrost" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From across + excrescent t.",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositions",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "acrost",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "acrost",
      "name": "en-prep"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "across"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English prepositions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904, Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond), The Magnetic North:",
          "text": "Now ye sling a couple o' saplings acrost the durrt ye've chucked out.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, Booth Tarkington, The Conquest of Canaan:",
          "text": "It's in that little brick buildin' straight acrost from the sheriff's door o' the jail--ye've been neighbors this long time!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass:",
          "text": "I'll jest sashay acrost the track an' give 'em my regards.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of across."
      ],
      "id": "en-acrost-en-prep-dS~VWnLC",
      "links": [
        [
          "across",
          "across#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, dialectal, nonstandard) Alternative form of across."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "dialectal",
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒst"
    }
  ],
  "word": "acrost"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From across + excrescent t.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositions",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "acrost",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "acrost",
      "name": "en-prep"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "across"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nonstandard terms",
        "English prepositions",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ɒst",
        "Rhymes:English/ɒst/2 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904, Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond), The Magnetic North:",
          "text": "Now ye sling a couple o' saplings acrost the durrt ye've chucked out.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, Booth Tarkington, The Conquest of Canaan:",
          "text": "It's in that little brick buildin' straight acrost from the sheriff's door o' the jail--ye've been neighbors this long time!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass:",
          "text": "I'll jest sashay acrost the track an' give 'em my regards.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of across."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "across",
          "across#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, dialectal, nonstandard) Alternative form of across."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "dialectal",
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒst"
    }
  ],
  "word": "acrost"
}