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Broadwise

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Broad´wise`
adv.1.Breadthwise.
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Adv.1.broadwise - in the direction of the breadth; "cut the cloth breadthwise"
breadthways, breadthwise
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Four foot out, broadwise, along the side of the Spit, there's a shelf of rock, about half fathom down under the sand.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Forth from the frigid mews come easily swinging carriages guided by short-legged coachmen in flaxen wigs, deep sunk into downy hammercloths, and up behind mount luscious Mercuries bearing sticks of state and wearing cocked hats broadwise, a spectacle for the angels.
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You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Parliament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy.
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