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Endways

Endways \End"ways`\, Endwise \End"wise\, adv.

  1. On end; erectly; in an upright position.

  2. With the end forward. [1913 Webster] ||

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endways

adv. endwise

WordNet
endways
  1. adv. on end or upright; "sticks leaning against the wall endways" [syn: endwise]

  2. in or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise; "endways pressure" [syn: endwise]

  3. with the end forward or toward the observer; "houses built endways" [syn: endwise, end on]

Usage examples of "endways".

This was the way all their quarrels concluded, with a turning of their thoughts towards the dreamland with its spires and big clocks as wide as two men turned endways, and whips of work for willing boys.

I tried the box upside down again, put my thumbs on its bottom surface with firm pressure and tried to push it out endways, like a slide.

They were worse than a pack of great, rough dogs that nearly knock one endways with delight.

Then I yelled with pain and rage, and lifting the Watcher endways, drove it down with both hands, as a man drives a stake into the earth, and that with so great a stroke that the skull of the wolf was shattered like a pot, and he fell dead, dragging me with him.

Turned endways, inserted flat, their width would have been no more than two feet - less than the width of the window.

Having once penetrated this outer curtain, Ralph saw they were close to a rude landing made of logs sunk endways into the oozy bottom, and floored with large canes similar to bamboo.

On the patio was a barbeque pit made from a fifty-five gallon drum slit endways with a torch and set in a welded iron frame.

Half of it had fallen away, leaving the standing part like an egg broken endways, the curving half-dome backed against the wind and offering some sort of protection from the intermittent sleet.