endways

[ end-weyz ]

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

  2. with the end upward or forward.

  1. toward the ends or end; lengthwise.

  2. with ends touching; end to end.

Origin of endways

1
First recorded in 1565–75; end1 + -ways
  • Also end·wise [end-wahyz]. /ˈɛndˌwaɪz/.

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How to use endways in a sentence

  • Some I broke and put in endwise, and I was careful to give all as irregular a setting as possible, till the top was reached.

    The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard Eaton
  • The soup is eaten with a bowl-like spoon, and it is the grossest breach to place this in your mouth, or approach it, endwise.

  • There is always an arrangement for adjusting the cylinder endwise, so that teeth will come in the middle.

    Farm Engines and How to Run Them | James H. Stephenson
  • Sometimes articles, like spools, can be held endwise with safety when they might be crushed if squeezed sidewise.

  • Pare the curve from each end with a chisel, holding the spring endwise in the bench-hook.

British Dictionary definitions for endways

endways

esp US and Canadian endwise (ˈɛndˌwaɪz)

/ (ˈɛndˌweɪz) /


adverb
  1. having the end forwards or upwards

adjective
  1. vertical or upright

  2. lengthways

  1. standing or lying end to end

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