The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broadwise \Broad"wise`\, adv. Breadthwise. [Archaic]
Wiktionary
adv. (context obsolete English) breadthwise.
WordNet
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.