English Explanatory Dictionary

withershins

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. Alternative spelling of widdershins (“anticlockwise”).

Word forms

withershins

Etymology

Alteration of widder- in widdershins (a borrowing from Middle Low German) after the English cognate form wither- (“against, anti-”).

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