sunwise
in the direction of the sun's apparent daily motion.
in a clockwise direction.
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How to use sunwise in a sentence
They drank the water and then moved round the well deasil (sunwise), and before departing left an offering on the stone.
This sunwise turn is practised in other cases, as in sickness or accident.
Curiosities of Superstition | W. H. Davenport AdamsHe danced in a sunwise circle around them, from east to south to west to north, bobbing his head and singing.
Shaman | Robert SheaWolf Paw stared, as White Bear passed his medicine stick three times in a sunwise circle over the bleeding shoulder.
Shaman | Robert SheaThat was the wrong way round—the unlucky, uncanonical direction; the evil way, widdershins, the opposite of sunwise.
Hilda Wade | Grant Allen
British Dictionary definitions for sunwise
/ (ˈsʌnˌwaɪz) /
moving in the same direction as the sun; clockwise
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