Definitions
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- adjective
Radial , like thespokes of awheel . - adverb In a spokewise fashion.
Etymologies
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spoke + -wise
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Examples
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My quilt and my pelisse and my cloak were spread out so that I might lie spokewise, with my feet towards the central fire.
Eothen 2003
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In this case the magnets, which can be made of a couple of dozen turns of fine insulated wire round a 1/8-in soft iron bar, should be arranged spokewise round the compass case, and care must be taken that all the cores are wound in the same direction, so as to have the same polarity.
Things To Make Archibald Williams
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My quilt and my pelisse and my cloak were spread out so that I might lie spokewise, with my feet towards the central fire.
Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Alexander William Kinglake 1850
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