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spirewise, adv. ? Obs.
[f. spire n.1 + -wise.]
In the manner of a tapering spire; pyramidally.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry ii. vi. (1611) 56 A Cheveron is an ordinary formed of a two fold line spirewise or pyramidall. 1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 930 Some of them build their nests spire wise out of clay. 1683P. Lorrain tr. Muret's Rites Funeral 38 A kind of Square Tower,..and on the top of it were four little Towers made Taper or Spire-wise. |