Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as endwise.
Wiktionary
- adv. endwise
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. On end; erectly; in an upright position.
- adv. With the end forward.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. with the end forward or toward the observer
- adv. on end or upright
- adv. in or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise.
Examples
“We were placed in two ranks, "endways," in such a manner that the heads of the front-rank men rested between the feet of their respective”
“Large blocks of stone, shaped to fit the upper surface of the rock, were laid upon it, generally endways, that is, with their smallest surface outwards, their length forming the thickness of the wall, which was sometimes as much as fifteen or twenty feet. [”
“What had happened was that a cannon shot had hit the go-down roof just as the rockets went off, and a falling slat had knocked me endways; when I came to the first thing I saw was the firing-frame in ruins, with a beam across it, and I remember thinking, ah well, no more Guy Fawkes night until next year.”
“Taking one endways in its bill and keeping it firm by a pressure of the tongue, it cuts a transverse notch by a lateral sawing motion of the sharp-edged lower mandible.”
“They turned it endways up with the bedsteads and mattresses.”
“The shock of it knocked my wits endways — but only for a moment.”
“The shock of it knocked my wits endways - but only for a moment.”
“The marble flags I ran on tilted endways, flinging me down on hands and knees.”
“And we have done that in spite of a downturn in the American economy, comparable to that which in 1949 knocked our economy endways.”
“I was knocked endways about Collins; for who could have been on the corduroy road if he had not.”
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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The Magic Pudding
Being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends, Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff.
plum duff, whisker soup, bottle-oh, the penguin bold, Irish stoo, cut-an'-come-again, beef-and-thunder ..., treacherous 'abits, put the billy on, Caribbee, many's the bootin..., belayin' pin and 26 more...
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The Basic Kafka
Words gathered while reading The Basic Kafka, a collection of the short fiction, aphorisms, letters, and diary entries of Franz Kafka.
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Directionality & Position
abaft, larboard, contrariwise, widdershins, bass-ackward, cant, askew, cattywampus, yaw-ways, slaunchways, thwartwise, askance and 32 more...
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