Advertisement

Advertisement

View definitions for endwise

endwise

Discover More

Example Sentences

Some I broke and put in endwise, and I was careful to give all as irregular a setting as possible, till the top was reached.

The soup is eaten with a bowl-like spoon, and it is the grossest breach to place this in your mouth, or approach it, endwise.

There is always an arrangement for adjusting the cylinder endwise, so that teeth will come in the middle.

Sometimes articles, like spools, can be held endwise with safety when they might be crushed if squeezed sidewise.

Pare the curve from each end with a chisel, holding the spring endwise in the bench-hook.

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement