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

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

To remove the coupling the bolts are removed, and the sleeve being moved endways the cones open from their spring and relieve the grip upon the shaft.

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

She made her way to the flower-stand in the governor’s garden, lifted the frame out of the ground and set it up endways directly under the broken spike.

From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard