endways

[ end-weyz ]

/ ˈɛndˌweɪz /

adverb

on end: We set the table endways in order to fix the legs.

with the end upward or forward.

toward the ends or end; lengthwise.

with ends touching; end to end.

Nearby words

endurant, endure, enduring, enduringly, enduro, endways, endymion, endysis, ene, enea, enema

Also end·wise

[end-wahyz] /ˈɛndˌwaɪz/.

Origin of endways

First recorded in 1565–75; end¹ + -ways

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Examples from the Web for endways

A slovenly method of rolling up a hammock transversely, and lashing it endways by one clue.
The Sailor's Word-Book|William Henry Smyth
If you touched them you'd get a shock that would knock you endways.
The Hero of Panama|F. S. Brereton
Harry helped himself to one, and without much thinking what he was doing, put it endways into his mouth, and took a bite.
The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley|Bertram Mitford
Things have been going from bad to worse with our four poor gods, but what has principally knocked them endways is machinery.
The Harlequinade|Dion Clayton Calthrop

Two screws at n secure the dies in their cases and a screw m adjusts them endways so as to set them forward when recutting them.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II|Joshua Rose

British Dictionary definitions for endways

endways

esp US and Canadian endwise (ˈɛndˌwaɪz)

/ (ˈɛndˌweɪz) /

adverb

having the end forwards or upwards

adjective

vertical or upright

lengthways

standing or lying end to end

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