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longways, adv.|ˈlɒŋweɪz|
Also 7 longstwayes.
[f. long a. + way n. with adverbial s.]
In the direction of the length of a thing; longwise, lengthways; longitudinally.
1588A. Perne Will in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 28 The Colledge Librairie..to be newe builded at the east end of the Masters Lodginge longewayes towardes the Streate. 1601Sir W. Cornwallis Ess. ii. xli. (1631) 181 Man..his definition must be a creature with two legs made long-wayes. 1639T. de la Grey Compl. Horsem. 91 Give fire to the spaven both longst-wayes and crosse-wayes. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. ⁋7 He Folds a sheet of the Paper he is to Work long-ways, and broad-ways. 1705A. van Leeuwenhoek in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1844 The Bark of the said Wood can't be stripp'd off longways. 1831T. Hope Ess. Origin Man II. 399 Uneven bearing of the sole both longways and broadways. 1847Grote Greece ii. liii. (1862) IV. 486 A channel through it long-ways from end to end. 1899Daily News 13 Dec. 8/3 To have alternately to hold the book up longways and sideways.
†b. quasi-prep. Obs.
1656Sir J. Finett For. Ambass. 11 Another Table placed long-wayes the chamber. |