a. [CROSS- 10.] Across the country transversely to the great highways; across the fields, etc., instead of following the roads.
1767. S. Paterson, Another Traveller! I. 316. We had a cross-country road back to Alost.
1786. Cowper, Gratitude, 20. These carpets … Oh spare them, ye knights of the boot, Escaped from a cross country ride!
1885. H. O. Forbes, Nat. Wand. E. Archip., 191. The main cross-country road to Bencoolen.
