spirewiseadv.
? Obsolete.
In the manner of a tapering spire; pyramidally.
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the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > condition of tapering to a point > [adverb] > at the top
steeplewise1545
spirewise1610
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie ii. vi. 56 A Cheveron is an Odinary [sic], formed of a twofold line Spirewise or Pyramidall.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 930 Some of them build their nests spire wise out of clay.
1683 P. Lorrain tr. P. Muret Rites Funeral 38 A kind of Square Tower,..and on the top of it were four little Towers made Taper or Spire-wise.
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adv.1610- to put get into one's gears
- to put ginger
- to put gold-weight
- to put goldweight
- to put grow out of heart
- to put hand in
- to put hand on
- to put hand to
- to put hand unto
- to put hand upon
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- to put hands to
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- to put ideas in a person's head
- to put ideas into a person's head
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- to put in a nutshell
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- to put in a person's head