Boustrophedon

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An ancient method of writing in which the lines are inscribed alternately from right to left and from left to right.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • ad. of writing, in a fashion such that the reading direction changes from right-to-left to left-to-right every line.
  • adj. written from right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines
  • adj. changing direction, going back and forth
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A method of writing shown in early Greek inscriptions, in which the lines run alternately from right to left and from left to right, as the furrows made in plowing a field, the plow passing alternately backward and forward.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs'
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