endwise

IPA: ˈɛndwaɪz

adjective

  • On-end; upright; pertaining or relating to the end.

adverb

  • Upright, or standing on end.
  • With the end towards the front or towards the observer.
  • Towards the ends.
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Examples of "endwise" in Sentences

  • Doubles are placed endwise and count the same as single dominoes.
  • It was made of gigantic boulders stabbed endwise into the ground.
  • The pump includes a pair of elongated chambers in endwise relation.
  • The rod has elongated first and second sections in endwise relation.
  • The filter sleeve is gathered and packed endwise on a tubular mandrel.
  • It is, in fact, like two quite different churches put together endwise.
  • The swing is combined with a seesaw means for inducing endwise swinging.
  • The roll is built up of thin asbestos discs compressed endwise upon a mandrel.
  • "endwise" by Mr. Hurley's practised fists after Hayne was struck down by the corporal's musket.
  • In one of Lincoln's earliest military problems was involved the process of getting his company "endwise" through a gate.
  • As she ran to catch up, Aya realized that the opening was exactly the right size for one of the cylinders to pass through endwise.
  • Secondly, do NOT think that you are going to hold back the ending because "I want the editor to be knocked endwise by the twist when s/he reads the book".
  • A slitting device for subdividing longitudinally a ribbon wherein blades are mounted in a housing in positions to slit into two or more narrow strips a ribbon which is pushed endwise into a selected slot in the holder.
  • A key duplicating machine for tubular keys wherein a key carrier is mounted to axially rotate the tube of the key blank and longitudinally shift the tube for endwise movement into a rotary cutter and rotary indexing to successive cuts.
  • This was Hamilton Grange's second move; in 1889, a developer offered it free for the taking, and the nearby church, after razing the house's portico and piazzas, rolled it two blocks down from the top of Harlem Heights, where it overlooked both Long Island Sound and the Hudson River, and shoehorned it in endwise to serve as a rectory.

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