endways

American  

[end-wayz] / 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

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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 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 J. O. (James Orchard) Halliwell-Phillipps

Hence in gripping the rod or wire there is no tendency to move it endways, as there is where the gripping jaws have, as in many machines, a certain amount of end motion while closing.

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

Here, too, the graves run endways into the rock.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

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