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edgeways

/ ˈɛdʒˌwaɪz; ˈɛdʒˌweɪz /

adverb

with the edge forwards or uppermost
they carried the piano in edgeways
on, by, with, or towards the edge
he held it edgeways
get a word in edgeways
usually used with a negative to succeed in interrupting a conversation in which someone else is talking incessantly

I want to speak myself, ef it's a possible thing to git in a word edgeways.

You never could get a word in edgeways when Livingstone was in the room, anyhow.

Afterwards while we were walking home Hugh looked edgeways at me.

There wasn't no man bigger'n Jim, sideways, edgeways, or up an' down.

The savage raised the axe which he still held in his hand, and brought it down again edgeways.

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