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Definition of Flatlong
1. adv. With the flat side downward; not edgewise.
Definition of Flatlong
1. Adverb. With the flat side downward; not edgewise. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flatlong
1. flatling [adv] - See also: flatling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatlong
Literary usage of Flatlong
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language: To by John Walker (1806)
"flatlong, flat'long. ad. With the flat downwards, not edgewise. To FLAT, flat.
vn To grow flat, op- posed to swell; ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"An it had not fallen flatlong." GON. You are gentlemen of brave mettle; you would
lift the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue in it five weeks ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"... another and very decided advantage is, that meeting the head flatlong, there
is no risk of indenting the skull or cutting the scalp. ..."
4. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1901)
"But the name means simply ' implements carried in a tweeze or case ' (Fr.
In headlong, flatlong, and sidelong the old suffix -ling (preserved in darkling} ..."
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