单词 | endwise |
释义 | endwise (once / 42980 pages) adv WORD FAMILY endwise USAGE EXAMPLESIt was carefully arranged out of the eyes of peacock feathers, exactly as if a stiff peacock fan had been erected endwise on his head. T. H. White, The Once and Future King(1958) Another plan is to let the back gear move endwise and bush its bearing holes with hardened steel bushes. Rose, Joshua, Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volum...(2012) They set up a chant, marking the time with a small wooden drum, and the boom of hollow bamboos struck endwise upon the earth. Thomson, Basil, The Fijians—A Study of the Decay of...(2011) 1adv on end or upright Syn endways 2adv with the end forward or toward the observer Syn end on, endways 3adv in or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise Syn endways |
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