sunwise

American  

[suhn-wahyz] / ˈsʌnˌwaɪz /

adverb

1. in the direction of the sun's apparent daily motion.

2. in a clockwise direction.

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sunwise British  

/ ˈsʌnˌwaɪz /

adverb

1. moving in the same direction as the sun; clockwise

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Etymology

Origin of sunwise

First recorded in 1860–65; sun + -wise

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

sunwise

But the three above are sufficiently significant to show that,' following the strange sunwise progression of nations, football has moved westward.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he passed through the last hoop it wasn’t finished They spun him around sunwise and he recovered he stood up The rainbows returned him to his home, but it wasn’t over.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

That was the wrong way round—the unlucky, uncanonical direction; the evil way, widdershins, the opposite of sunwise.

From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Allen, Grant

Blow three times, and rub sunwise three times.

From Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk by Bergen, Fanny D. (Fanny Dickerson)

So, too, in the Western Isles, off the coast of Scotland, boats at starting are, or at any rate used to be, rowed in a sunwise course to insure a lucky voyage.”

From Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk by Bergen, Fanny D. (Fanny Dickerson)