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endwise
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. on end or upright; "sticks leaning against the wall endways" [syn: endways ] in or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise; "endways pressure" [syn: endways ] with the end forward or toward the observer; "houses built endways" [syn: endways , ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. On-end; upright; pertaining or relating to the end. adv. 1 upright, or standing on end 2 with the end towards the front or towards the observer 3 towards the ends
Usage examples of endwise.
Then, with the maul, after repeatedly smiting the upper end of this iron rod, he placed the blunted needle endwise on the top of it, and less strongly hammered that, several times, the mate still holding the rod as before.
He raised his staff and brought it down endwise, three times, on the earth.
Hiawatha Felt the loose line jerk and tighten, As he drew it in, it tugged so That the birch canoe stood endwise, Like a birch log in the water, With the squirrel, Adjidaumo, Perched and frisking on the summit.
Holding tight to the suction handles, he tilted it endwise and maneuvered it out.
End and the Scilly Isles, Ushant and Cape Finisterre, are projecting features along the middle distance of the picture, and the English Channel recedes endwise as a tapering avenue near the centre.
He had a mental picture of himself felling those trees with it, trimming them and sliding them endwise into place.
Working together, with hands extended through the grating, Theseus and Daedalus turned the log endwise and pulled it through, a process delayed by the necessity of hacking off one more branch.
Nearly all are great oblong barns, turned endwise to the road, 50, 60, and even 100 feet long, with the end nearest the road the dwelling-house.
In their bleached and hollow upper ends stood coffin-boxes, boarded endwise into the pole by heavy cedar planks boldly carved with the crest of the little huddle of bones inside the box, bones which had once been a chief of Eagle, Bear or Whale Clan.
Grimly, Carolinus brought his staff, endwise, three times down upon the earth.