endwise
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It was carefully arranged out of the eyes of peacock feathers, exactly as if a stiff peacock fan had been erected endwise on his head.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
It is fixed on slides so that it can move to and fro endwise.
The captain could not remember the proper command to turn the company endwise, and the situation was becoming decidedly embarrassing, when one of those thoughts born of the depths of despair came to his rescue.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by William H. Herndon
The work is held in a pair of vice jaws operated by the hand wheel shown, and this vice is moved endwise in its slideways on the bed by means of the vertical lever shown.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Its thick leaves form also its branches, each leaf being attached to its neighbor endwise, like links of a chain, and being bordered by a bright yellow ruffle of profuse blossoms.
From The Pearl of India by Maturin Murray Ballou
