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Country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other
Answer for the clue "Country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other ", 8 letters:
longways
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other [syn: longways dance ] adv. in the direction of the length; "He cut the paper lengthwise" [syn: lengthways , lengthwise , longwise , longitudinally ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. lengthwise, in the longer direction.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from long (adj.) + way (n.) + adverbial genitive -s .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Longways \Long"ways`\, adv. Lengthwise. --Addison.
Usage examples of longways.
Then the sound of the train would come back, and the feel of it moving me, and splits and the wavers in the track would rise up through the logs, and the logs would be real, the way they were sliding longways through the other trees.
He stepped off the low platform and began dragging a bale of hay into the narrow alleyway between the standing box and the flattened one, settling it firmly longways between the two.
SIDEWINDERS: They walk sideways as a measuring worm walks longways, although not exactly.
Jeremiah like a Volkswagen that had been crunched longways between two semis.
I had been carrying the bag longways on, which made it more unstable but meant that its weight was distributed directly down the line of my body.