单词 | lengthway |
释义 | † lengthwayn. Obsolete. The direction of the length of something. Only used in adverbial phrase ( the lengthway of…), and attributive quasi-adj.= lengthwise adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > specific directions > [noun] > longitudinal direction lengthway1691 lengthways1702 the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adjective] > extending lengthways side?a1400 endlong1480 lengthway1691 longitudinal1705 longitudinated1774 protensive1836 lengthwise1871 1691 W. Petty Treat. Naval Philos. in T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 121 The three perpendicular lenth-way sections following. 1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 3 A notch, in which..lies the end of a pole, the length way of the frame. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1691 |
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