Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Longwise; lengthwise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Lengthwise.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Lengthwise, in the longer direction.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other
  • adverb in the direction of the length

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Examples

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  • He removed a sheet from the box and made a little gutter, bending the sheet in half longways.

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  • With a sharp knife split the vanilla bean longways down the middle.

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  • I pulled my easel's support-strut to full extension and set up the blank canvas longways.

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  • Slice morel mushrooms longways, wash gently on inside and out.

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  • I made all the haste I could, lest he should think twice of it, and the bargain was completed, which Pickleson he was thereby so relieved in his mind that he come out at his little back door, longways like a serpent, and give us

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