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end-way(s, -wise, adv.|ɛndweɪ, -weɪz, -waɪz|
[f. end n. + -ways, -wise.]
1. Of position: With the end (as distinguished from the side) uppermost, foremost, or turned towards the spectator. Also endways on.
1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 87 To dig small holes..and put in the Plants endwise. 1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 193 Set obliquely like a pack of Cards, endways or edgways. 1709Berkeley Ess. Vision §2 Distance being a line directed endwise to the eye. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 47 The book lay end-way. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. viii. 68 The birch canoe stood endwise. 1857Mrs. Gaskell C. Brontë (1860) 3 The flag-stones with which it is paved are placed endways. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. xiii. (ed. 12) 78 A stone was set up endwise. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v., The house standing endways-on to the street. 1884Times (weekly ed.) 3 Oct. 13/1 A little town looking end⁓ways on to the river from a terraced slope.
b. In the direction of the ends; also, end to end.
a1608Sir F. Vere Comm. 125 The Poulder..broad-wayes lay due West, and end-ways North and South. 1862Jrnl. Soc. Arts X. 327/1 Strips of vulcanised india-rubber cemented endways.
2. Of motion:
†a. End on, in a direct line, continuously. (Obs. exc. dial.)
b. End foremost.
c. In the direction of the ends, lengthwise; also quasi-adj.
a.1575Turberv. Venerie 86 Hartes which have bene hunted, do most commonly runne endwayes as farre as they have force. 1641Hobbes Lett. Wks. 1845 VII. 456 As if a footman should run with double swiftnesse endwayes. 1855Whitby Gloss., Endways, forward.
b.1765Griffith Storm in Phil. Trans. LV. 277 More than one [splinter] flew end-ways like an arrow. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 480 A large pine has been seen..to pitch over endwise. 1870Barnum in R. Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. IV. xlii. 421 Taking the gun in both hands and striking with it endwise. 1871‘Mark Twain’ Screamers 31 He was all ready for the dog too, and knocked him endways with a rock when he came to tear him.
c.c1790J. Imison Sch. Arts I. 138 Take the tube..and shaking it endways, the mercury will run into the tube. 1791Smeaton Edystone L. (1793) 196 The stress upon the legs is always endways. 1819Playfair Nat. Phil. (ed. 3) I. 165 The strength of the beam to resist a force applied to it endwise. 1850Chubb's Locks & Keys 13 A compound of both endway pushing and revolving motion. 1882Nature XXVI. 599 The endwise action of so large a force. |