widdershins
adverb
Scottish Englishuk/ˈwɪd.ə.ʃɪnz/us/ˈwɪd.ɚ.ʃɪnz/in theoppositedirectionto themovementof thehandsof aclock:
逆时针方向地Thecirclebegantospinwiddershins.圆圈开始逆时针旋转起来。
Synonym
anticlockwise
- Members of thecovenholdhandsanddancewiddershins around thefire.
- Thestepsspiralledaround widdershins to theplacewhere Isat.
- Completing thecirclewiddershins,retireto thecentre.
Backwards, sideways and back and forth
- anticlockwise
- back and forthidiom
- back to frontphrase
- backward
- backwards
- hither and thitheridiom
- lateral
- laterally
- libration
- retro
- round
- saw
- side
- stand
- step aside
- swept-back
- there and backidiom
- to and fro
- to-ing and fro-ing
- wrong