† fretwiseadv.
Obsolete.
In the form of a fret; so as to interlace.
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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [adverb]
fretwise1423
interlacedlya1641
interwovenly1693
interweavingly1820
intertwiningly1823
intertwistingly-
1423 Kingis Quair xlvi In fret-wise couchit [was] with perleis quhite.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xxii. 169 Sometimes you shall find Fishes borne fret-waies, that is to say, fretted, or interlaced one ouer another.
1717 J. Tabor in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 30 558 Some [bricks] had one of their Sides wav'd..some Fretwise.
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