A Scottish or Northern English dialectal term meaning aslant, awry, or at an angle; in a slanting manner.
From ask- + lent (possibly related to leaning). Appears primarily in Scottish English texts, showing how regional dialects retained and modified Old Norse directional terms.
Scottish English preserved dozens of these Old Norse-influenced directional words that disappeared from standard English—'asklent' is like a linguistic time capsule showing how the northern reaches of Britain kept older language patterns alive!
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