endwise
Example Sentences
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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
And even as she spoke the great hearthstone sank down endwise turning upon itself and disclosing a narrow flight of steps.
From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol
Once, I saw an immense-sized coffin, endwise pushed through a lower window by three men who did not speak; and watching, I saw it pushed out again, and they drove off with it.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
Obviously, a set-screw may be placed to bear against the end of the tool to move it endwise and put on the cut.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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 James H. Shaw
