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flat-ways, -wise|ˈflætweɪz, -waɪz|
Rarely flat-way.
[f. flat a. + -ways, -wise.]
With the flat side (instead of the edge) uppermost, foremost, or applied to another surface. Opposed to edge-ways, -wise.
1601Holland Pliny xviii. xviii. 578 The broad bit of the plough-share..lying flatwise. 1684Boyle Porousn. Anim. & Solid Bod. vii. 108 These Plates..were laid on flat-wise. 1692Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1721) V. 358 They drew their Swords, and laid on some of them Flatways. 1751R. Paltock P. Wilkins (1884) I. xix. 195, I..leaped off flatwise with face towards the water. c1790J. Imison Sch. Art II. 11 Steep the print, flat way, in warm water. 1807Med. Jrnl. XVII. 212 It [was] very difficult to get the handle of a spoon (flat-ways) between his teeth. 1870E. J. Reed in Macm. Mag. Nov. 5/2 Such a raft will not float flatwise. 1879F. W. Robinson Coward Conscience i. iii., He..fell flatwise upon the gravel. |