Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb & adjective Lengthwise.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the direction of length; lengthwise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Lengthwise.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Lengthwise; longways; lengthways.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in the direction of the length

Etymologies

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long +‎ -wise

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Examples

  • I dropped down on that trail with my 85 Toyota 4x4 pick up in July 86 and when I turned around to head back up, someone putt sticks longwise across for added traction which aided until one of the sticks got caught in my emergency brake cable causing my rear brakes to lock up but I was able in low range to continue without stopping.

    Clay in late 1985 I bought a new 4x4 and proceeded to drive it into the Eielson Outback. Remember those roads? 2009

  • I dropped down on that trail with my 85 Toyota 4x4 pick up in July 86 and when I turned around to head back up, someone putt sticks longwise across for added traction which aided until one of the sticks got caught in my emergency brake cable causing my rear brakes to lock up but I was able in low range to continue without stopping.

    Clay in late 1985 I bought a new 4x4 and proceeded to drive it into the Eielson Outback. Remember those roads? 2009

  • Lying, also dressed and also across the bed, not longwise, are a Chinaman, a Lascar, and a haggard woman.

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2007

  • Too much of him longwise, too little of him broadwise, and too many sharp angles of him anglewise.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • On the way in, the individual into whose longwise eyes Walker had aimed his flashlight reached out to whack him solidly on the back of his skull, setting his head ringing.

    Lost And Found Foster, Alan Dean 2004

  • He sank two lumps of sugar deftly longwise through the whipped cream.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Meanwhile Sir Percival unlocked a cupboard beneath one of the book-cases, and produced from it a piece of parchment, folded longwise, many times over.

    The Woman in White 2003

  • He halved each longwise, cut each half crosswise, scraped the results into the kettle.

    Doomstalker Cook, Glen 1985

  • After half an hour Pippin said: 'I hope we have not turned too much towards the south, and are not walking longwise through this wood!

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • Then he has wrung them as if he were wringing the necks of poultry, and fixed them on his drying line with thorns and spikes, and finally he has taken the battered garments to his torture chamber and ploughed them with his iron, longwise and crosswise and slantwise, and dropped glowing cinders on their tenderest places.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

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