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endwise

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end·wise  (ndwz) also end·ways (-wz)
adv.
1. On end; upright.
2. With the end foremost.
3. Lengthwise.
4. End to end.
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Adv.1.endwise - on end or upright; "sticks leaning against the wall endways"
endways
2.endwise - in or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise; "endways pressure"
endways
3.endwise - with the end forward or toward the observer; "houses built endways"
end on, endways


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That office consists in mincing the horse-pieces of blubber for the pots; an operation which is conducted at a curious wooden horse, planted endwise against the bulwarks, and with a capacious tub beneath it, into which the minced pieces drop, fast as the sheets from a rapt orator's desk.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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