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Broadwise

Broadwise \Broad"wise`\, adv. Breadthwise. [Archaic]

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broadwise

adv. (context obsolete English) breadthwise.

WordNet
broadwise

adv. in the direction of the breadth; "cut the cloth breadthwise" [syn: breadthwise, breadthways]

Usage examples of "broadwise".

Forth from the frigid mews come easily swinging carriages guided by short-legged coachmen in flaxen wigs, deep sunk into downy hammercloths, and up behind mount luscious Mercuries bearing sticks of state and wearing cocked hats broadwise, a spectacle for the angels.

I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy.

The canvas-covered wagons ranged themselves, broadwise, in a straight line with the wind.

His arm swept in a wide circle, steel glittering as it left his hand, thudding broadwise through the sash and into the wood beneath.