- a variation of flatwise.
flatways
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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These were laid flatways, with their edges not quite plumb with the outside edge of the wall, and being frozen into place, left an uncovered space about five feet six inches square.
From Adrift in the Ice-Fields by Charles W. Hall
To keep his snakeship from intruding on domestic privacy Mr. Rat takes several strips of spiny cactus and lays them flatways across the passageway leading to his retreat.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Jewett Castello Gilson
Flat′wise, flatways, or with the flat side downward.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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