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Definition of Edgeways
1. Adverb. As if by an edge; barely. "I could not get a word in edgewise"
2. Adverb. With the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge. "Held it edgewise"
Definition of Edgeways
1. adv. With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.
Definition of Edgeways
1. Adverb. With the edge facing in the direction of movement ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Edgeways
1. edgewise [adv] - See also: edgewise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Edgeways
Literary usage of Edgeways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner (1854)
"Their appearance when seen edgeways in 1848—Schmidt's drawings of them.—7.
Mountains upon them.—8. Their dimensions. —9. Discovery of the obscure ..."
2. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1847)
"... like a large tomb-stone, placed edgeways, having on the outside certain
barbarous carv- ings, like snakes encircled, but without heads. ..."
3. Elements of Physics: Or, Natural Philosophy, General and Medical ; Explained by Neil Arnott (1829)
"If we suppose ASP to represent a plate of glass seen edgeways, and that towards
the point S in it, an eye is looking from the point D, evidently then, ..."
4. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1847)
"... and arranged in such a manner, that when pressure is applied, the plate of
the spring may be deflected edgeways, or in reference to its breadth, ..."
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