Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Obliquely; so as to slope or be sloping.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Obliquely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
sloping fashion;obliquely .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
slope + -wise
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Examples
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The second member or part of the Plough, is called the skeath, and is a péece of woode of two foote and a halfe in length, and of eight inches in breadth, and two inches in thicknesse: it is driuen extreamly hard into the Plough-beame, slopewise, so that ioyned they present this figure.
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