单词 | endways on |
释义 | > as lemmasendways on a. Of position: With the end (as distinguished from the side) uppermost, foremost, or turned towards the spectator. Also endways on. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surface > [adverb] > with the end up endways1657 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 87 To dig small holes..and put in the Plants endwise. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. v. 193 Set obliquely like a pack of Cards, endways or edgways. 1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §2. 2 Distance being a Line directed end-wise to the Eye. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 56 The Book lay End way. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha viii. 101 The birch canoe stood endwise. 1857 E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë I. i. 5 The flag-stones with which it is paved are placed end-ways. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xiii. 154 A stone was set up endwise. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word) The house standing endways-on to the street. 1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 3 Oct. 13/1 A little town looking end~ways on to the river from a terraced slope. < as lemmas |
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