endwise

Example Sentences

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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

This locks the horn in the clamp and permits the dog to adjust itself to accommodate the motion endwise that occurs when it is revolved.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

Here and there stone slabs stuck up, planted endwise in the earth like gravestones in a cemetery.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

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 Rose, Joshua

They set up a chant, marking the time with a small wooden drum, and the boom of hollow bamboos struck endwise upon the earth.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil