endwise

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It was carefully arranged out of the eyes of peacock feathers, exactly as if a stiff peacock fan had been erected endwise on his head.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

I could not for the life of me remember the word of command for getting my company endwise so that it would get through the gate.

From Boys' and Girls' Biography of Abraham Lincoln by Shaw, James H.

The work is held in a pair of vice jaws operated by the hand wheel shown, and this vice is moved endwise in its slideways on the bed by means of the vertical lever shown.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

It is fixed on slides so that it can move to and fro endwise.

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.

Here and there stone slabs stuck up, planted endwise in the earth like gravestones in a cemetery.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk