endways

American  

[end-weyz] / ˈɛndˌweɪz /

Also endwise

adverb

1. on end.

   We set the table endways in order to fix the legs.

2. with the end upward or forward.

3. toward the ends or end; lengthwise.

4. with ends touching; end to end.

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endways British  

/ ˈɛndˌwaɪz, ˈɛndˌweɪz /

adverb

1. having the end forwards or upwards

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adjective

1. vertical or upright

2. lengthways

3. standing or lying end to end

Etymology

Origin of endways

First recorded in 1565–75; end ¹ + -ways

Example Sentences

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endways

For 16 months he and his wife, Mavis, gathered facts and polled opinion, crisscross and endways.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the patio was a barbeque pit made from a fifty-five gallon drum slit endways with a torch and set in a welded iron frame.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

The corners are then again hammered down, giving the work sixteen sides, the work during this part of the process being moved endways, as each corner is hammered down.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

This is often modified to read that "a straight line when looked at endways appears as a point,"—an idea that involves the postulate that our line of sight is straight.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

The lads crowd round, and place their fists endways the one on the other, till they form a high pile of hands.

From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard)