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  • adjective Woven with alternating parallel threads of two colours.

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Examples

  • "Blue end-on-end and white poplins...the basics, really."

    Handsome Haberdashery 2012

  • The research station's outer walls are constructed from a series of end-on-end triangles, forming diamonds, and the ants amass a corresponding array of reflective diamonds that they build up around the outpost, reflecting light inward to overheat their human enemies.

    Phase IV Ed Howard 2008

  • The research station's outer walls are constructed from a series of end-on-end triangles, forming diamonds, and the ants amass a corresponding array of reflective diamonds that they build up around the outpost, reflecting light inward to overheat their human enemies.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • I am sure that there is a special ring of hell for the media: The survivor stories end-on-end for the titillation of the public.

    Think Progress » “One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever” 2005

  • I am sure that there is a special ring of hell for the media: The survivor stories end-on-end for the titillation of the public.

    Archives de la Stan 2005

  • They erect two telephone poles on the lakeshore, spliced together end-on-end using coils of heavy rope.

    Fun events in Chapala and Ajijic 2001

  • They erect two telephone poles on the lakeshore, spliced together end-on-end using coils of heavy rope.

    Fun events in Chapala and Ajijic 2001

  • Don't even think of lining up 13.9 trillion dollar bills end-on-end in order to create some kind of visual metaphor for our national debt.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Then, with a transporter vehicle that's also remotely operated, we would take it underground and place it end-on-end, lying down in our repository drifts.

    Worldchanging: Bright Green 2009

  • Paterson said when stacked end-on-end, they are taller than the Empire State Building.

    Philadelphia Business News - Local Philadelphia News | The Philadelphia Business Journal 2009

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