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endwise
adjective as in last
Strong matches
Example Sentences
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.
In the former position it breaks the grain endwise, while in the latter it wedges it apart.
The captain could not remember the proper command to turn the company endwise, and the situation was becoming decidedly embarrassing, when one of those thoughts born of the depths of despair came to his rescue.
They set up a chant, marking the time with a small wooden drum, and the boom of hollow bamboos struck endwise upon the earth.
Sheets of iron are tinned, in the manufactories of tin plate, by immersing the sheets, endwise, in a pot of melted tin, the top of which is covered with about two inches depth of tallow.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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