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edgewise

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edge·wise  (jwz) also edge·ways (-wz)
adv.
1. With the edge foremost.
2. On, by, with, or toward the edge.
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Adv.1.edgewise - with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge; "he sawed the board edgeways"; "held it edgewise"
edgeways
2.edgewise - as if by an edge; barely; "I could not get a word in edgewise"
edgeways


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"No indeed," answered the Captain, who was walking better since he began to move edgewise.
The Emerald City of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
Edgewise moved along the oily deck, it operates like a leathern squilgee; and by nameless blandishments, as of magic, allures along with it all impurities.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
So Zeb and the Wizard set to work and took off the wheels and the top, and then they put the buggy edgewise, so it would take up the smallest space.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
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