edgeways
esp US and Canadian edgewise (ˈɛdʒˌwaɪz)
/ (ˈɛdʒˌweɪz) /
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
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Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
How to use edgeways in a sentence
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.
Rough-Hewn | Dorothy CanfieldAfterwards while we were walking home Hugh looked edgeways at me.
A Tatter of Scarlet | S. R. CrockettThere wasn't no man bigger'n Jim, sideways, edgeways, or up an' down.
The Trail Horde | Charles Alden SeltzerThe savage raised the axe which he still held in his hand, and brought it down again edgeways.
The Fair Maid of Perth | Sir Walter Scott
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