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Meanings of widdershins in English
Russian
посолонь и противосолонь 
Term in English for counter-clockwise as relates to contrasting the apparent clockwise movement of the sun around the Earth when sighted down the North Pole.
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Examples for "anticlockwise direction"
Examples for "anticlockwise direction"
1
Her left bosom she was rotating in a clockwise direction and her right bosom in an anticlockwise direction.
2
But the door there leads to my quarters, and we couldn't possibly have approached it from an anticlockwise direction.
3
It was a modern model, with double lenses that could be adjusted by sliding a cylindrical ring in a clockwise or anticlockwise direction.
4
The rituals include the tawaf: circling the holy Kaaba at the centre of the Grand Mosque seven times in an anticlockwise direction while repeating prayers.
Usage of widdershins in English
1
There's a hubble of the mothaship, whirlagig and widdershins around our rock.
2
She then used it to trace three circles around the massed stones, widdershins.
3
Then he turned and switched hands, making three slow circles widdershins.
4
And it is for that that I dance widdershins.
5
Up until the wind funneled secret passages and chambers through his hair again, flipping it, parting it widdershins.
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So as soon as the missiles were out of his hand, Gavin and Liv were sent spinning sharply widdershins.
7
The way out is widdershins.
8
Clockwise or widdershins, stopping after so many turns, in differing directions and numbers; derivatives budded from each corkscrew whorl.
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Everything seems to be widdershins.
10
You have to go widdershins.
11
He turned the cap widdershins.
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She spun it widdershins.
13
And I have a great mind to look up the old woman of that tale who must certainly be hereabout, dancing 'widdershins.'
14
I am wrapped around with chanting voices, circling through the darknesses without, as if of slow, gruff men that walk about me widdershins.
15
I took a left, following the face of the hillside in a counterclockwise direction, also known as widdershins, in the parlance of the locals.
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I started to outline the situation to Hassan i Sabbah X but the other joint came around, widdershins, and I took a drag on that.
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Frequent collocations
Widdershins through the time