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wedgewise, adv.|ˈwɛdʒwaɪz|
[f. wedge n. + -wise.]
After the manner, in the form, of a wedge.
1548Elyot's Dict., Cuneatim, wedgewyse, by lyttell bandes or companies, imbattayled wedgewise. 1600Holland Livy ii. l. 79 They..with a pointed battaile wedgewise pierced through and made themselves passage. 1610― Camden's Brit. i. 456 It lieth Wedg-wise upon the sea. 1657R. Carpenter Astrol. 28 That these words may be understood to the bottom, and withstand all Objections; and that no opposition may wedge-wise enter upon them. 1703Neve City & C. Purchaser 10 Bricks moulded..Wedge-wise, broader above, than they are below. 1852De Morgan in Graves Life Sir W. R. Hamilton (1889) III. 415 Nothing but two sheets of thin pasteboard..with three bits of book⁓covering cloth..pasted on, so as to open out wedgewise. 1900M. Hewlett Richard Yea-and-Nay ii. ix, Inside the town gate they took up close order, wedgewise, linked and riveted. |