ADVERB
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with the end forward or toward the observer
houses built endways -
in or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise
endways pressure -
on end or upright
sticks leaning against the wall endways
How To Use endwise In A Sentence
- Secondly, do NOT think that you are going to hold back the ending because "I want the editor to be knocked endwise by the twist when s/he reads the book". Archive 2007-03-01
- In one of Lincoln's earliest military problems was involved the process of getting his company "endwise" through a gate. Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller
- Charges set diagonally on the field of a Shield, in the position in which a bend would occupy, are said to be “_in bend_” and are arranged in the same manner: but it would be quite possible to have three or more charges each disposed bendwise; but yet, nevertheless, when taken together occupying the position of a fesse and therefore described also as in fesse. The Handbook to English Heraldry
- endwise" by Mr. Hurley's practised fists after Hayne was struck down by the corporal's musket. The Deserter
- _ If a field be divided by lines drawn bendwise, and also by others drawn either vertically or horizontally, it is “_paly bendy_,” as No. 118, or “_barry bendy_,” as No. 119. The Handbook to English Heraldry
- _even_ number of parts by lines drawn _bendwise_, is “_bendy_,” the number of the divisions to be specified: as a matter of course, a field thus “bendy” becomes a “varied field,” in which all the divisions lie in the same plane: thus, No. 116, for DE MONTFORD (H. 3 and E. 2) -- _Bendy of ten or and az. The Handbook to English Heraldry
- The innovation strategies of regional collaboration healthcare system(RCHS) could be divided into broadwise and endwise with the view of systematology and synergetics.
- Charges set diagonally on the field of a Shield, in the position in which a bend would occupy, are said to be “_in bend_” and are arranged in the same manner: but it would be quite possible to have three or more charges each disposed bendwise; but yet, nevertheless, when taken together occupying the position of a fesse and therefore described also as in fesse. The Handbook to English Heraldry
- It was made of gigantic boulders stabbed endwise into the ground. An Heroic Tale in an Enormous Tomb « A Fly in Amber
- This was Hamilton Grange's second move; in 1889, a developer offered it free for the taking, and the nearby church, after razing the house's portico and piazzas, rolled it two blocks down from the top of Harlem Heights, where it overlooked both Long Island Sound and the Hudson River, and shoehorned it in endwise to serve as a rectory. Hamilton's Shining House on a Hill