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
The launch was pitching endwise and sidewise, and through one or two of the ports, which had been left open, the rain was blowing in.
From Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water by Ralph Henry Barbour
A straw has been known to penetrate the body of a tree endwise by the extreme velocity imparted to it when carried in the vortex of a tornado.
From Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. by Elisha Gray
Prone like a crawling band of scouts, endwise like battering-rams, not upright with green banners waving, Birnam wood comes to Dunsinane to fight King Frost.
From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
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.
From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Walter Prichard Eaton
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