Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "up-and-down".
She watched the way his muscles moved beneath his skin as he matched Racer's gait with a gentle up-and-down and she felt a glow of warmth that was not from the tempera- .
Cecil Granthum, of Gilroy, Ohio--until Slim rode up and handed the Little Doctor a letter addressed in that bold, up-and-down writing that Chip considered a little the ugliest specimen of chirography he had ever seen in his life.
With programs like Netscape Navigator, you can jump discontinuously from any point in the World Wide Web to any other point, without having to traverse all those tedious up-and-down intermediate links.
She was an old ship with a straight up-and-down bow and a square, boxlike shape to her superstructure.
Pitt turned and gazed down at the Wallace as Butera very carefully backed the tug toward the Titanic's old straight up-and-down bow until he was less than a hundred feet away.
But it was an up-and-down lock, with the outer and inner keyholes on different levels.
But say, I'm glad all that roulette and stuff was for the up-and-down stage and not on the level.
But to Tad, although the basket had no up-and-down weight, it would still have a certain amount of side-to-side mass and momentum.
The optical landing system was stabilized in pitch and roll, that is, in the horizontal plane, but it could not compensate for instability in the vertical plane, the up-and-down motion of the ship known as heave.
Almost any one must have noticed that all the fish familiar to landsmen have not a flat, but a vertical, or up-and-down tail.
It receives its designation (pitchpoling) from its being likened to that preliminary up-and-down poise of the whale-lance, in the exercise called pitchpoling, previously described.
After a final up-and-down ride over the top of the inner ring, we were finally spilled by a moving stairway into a big square room, partitioned off into dozens of small work cubicles.
The engine's piston rod was connected to a long shaft that drove the forward pivot on the walking beam, converting the up-and-down thrust to the aft shaft that powered the crank that turned the Lexington's big twenty-three-foot-diameter paddle wheels with their nine-foot sweeps.
The Kiqui Nest-Mother chattered, waving her paws in a queer up-and-down pattern that Dennie had said connoted happy emphasis.
But like the finest set of tick marks on a ruler, the individual up-and-down wave cycles are the finest units making up the wave-train, and therefore by examining solely how they are disrupted we can determine the rock's location only to within a margin of error equal to the length of the wave cycles, that is, the wave's wavelength.