What is "lengthways"

Usage examples of "lengthways".

My hands shook as I cut the bandage lengthways with scissors and removed it.

When Zoe came back with the food Granville was in ALL THNGS WISE AND WONDERFUL205 his element, slicing the juicy smoked sausages lengthways, slapping mustard on them and enclosing them in rolls.

In a two-car family, one typically was in the generous sized lock-up, the second lengthways outside.

Within the doorway, and at the distance of nine feet, which was the solid thickness of the wall, there was a second door of oak, crossed, both breadth and lengthways, with clenched bars of iron, and studded full of broad-headed nails.

So tiny it was that had it fallen lengthways it would have disappeared, and he might never have found it.

Eventually we got it and the mizzen lashed lengthways along the cluttered decks, sticking out over the bows like the lance of an armored knight.

Tyson lifted himself onto the sill and sat lengthways in the big gun port, his back to the stone wall and his knees drawn up.

Tommy took out first a sealed envelope rolled up lengthways with an elastic band round it.

It was of soft leather, and about eight inches wide, sewed lengthways and breadthways in small squares, in which, I presumed the diamonds were deposited.

A half of a dandelion wine barrel cut lengthways formed the badgerbabe Russano's cradle.

He described the poisons of the forest and the healing properties of tropical herbs, the pressure the palm kernel develops to break open its coconut, the length of a humming-bird's tongue, and how crocodiles carry their young in their mouths laid lengthways like sardines in a tin.