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Definition of Sideway
1. Adverb. With one side forward or to the front. "Crabs seeming to walk sidewise"
2. Adverb. From the side; obliquely. "Scenes viewed sidewise"
3. Adverb. Toward one side. "A figure moving sidewise in the shadows"
Definition of Sideway
1. Noun. A footpath near a road ¹
2. Noun. A byway ¹
3. Adjective. sidelong ¹
4. Adverb. sideways ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sideway
1. sideways [adv] - See also: sideways
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sideway
Literary usage of Sideway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Foot of the Horse; Or, Lameness and All Diseases of the Feet Traced to by David Roberge (1894)
"sideway Movements. 310. Whether the horse wishes to move forward or backward, or
turn from right to left, or from left to right, the movement does not ..."
2. Gymnastics of the Voice for Song and Speech: Also a Method for the Cure of by Oskar Guttmann (1893)
"Both these movements should at first be performed slowly, but gradually quicker
and quicker until we obtain the full swing. The raising of the arms sideway ..."
3. Elementary Lessons in Steam Machinery and the Marine Steam Engine: With a by Joseph Langmaid, H. Gaisford (1901)
"Description of ordinary straightway cock, sideway cock, threeway cock. Position of
score on end of plug tells whether cock is shut or open. ..."
4. Precedents and Forms in Conveyancing by Charles Davidson (1876)
"not to per- cinders or other things from or to any other colliery than h the
said - colliery along the said tram or waggon way or sideway : AND will during ..."
5. Martin's Practice of Conveyancing: With Forms of Assurances by Charles Davidson (1844)
"Exception of right to make cross-ways l way and sideway or ... convenient as well
for the making, laying, and placing of the said waggon-way and sideway or ..."
6. Proceedings (1901)
"The advance of one rail over the other is influenced by sideway ... Lateral re-actions
due to sideway oscillation of the locomotive do not show to the same ..."
7. Yacht Architecture: A Treatise on the Laws which Govern the Resistance of by Dixon Kemp (1897)
"50) let A be an immersed plane moving in the direction of the arrows; and let it
be assumed that the plane has also a sideway or lateral motion ..."
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