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Definition of Endways

1. Adverb. On end or upright. "Sticks leaning against the wall endways"

2. Adverb. In or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise. "Endways pressure"

3. Adverb. With the end forward or toward the observer. "Houses built endways"

Definition of Endways

1. adv. On end; erectly; in an upright position.

Definition of Endways

1. Adverb. endwise ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Endways

1. endwise [adv] - See also: endwise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Endways

endure endured endurement endurer endurers endures endurest endureth enduring enduringly

enduringness enduringnesses enduro enduros endward endways (current term) endwise endyma endymal endysis

endzone endzones enecate eneclann enediol enediolate enediols enediyne enediynes enema

Literary usage of Endways

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Railway Track and Track Work by Edward Ernest Russell Tratman (1908)
"The ties (moving endways) come down on one side of the train, and the rails on the opposite side. The tie tramway ends in a chute, supported by a wire cable ..."

2. Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of Colonel Maceroni by Francis Maceroni (1838)
"it would not save it from the chance of going up endways, much to the inconvenience ... endways ..."

3. Lockwood's Dictionary of Terms Used in the Practice of Mechanical by Joseph Gregory Horner (1892)
"... move it endways to a distance sufficient to move the belt from one pulley to another. Strap End.—When the end of a connecting rod (qv) has a loose strap ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1876)
"Therefore no total endways" force is administered to the surface of the body by the flow of the fluid. Here again the argument given in the te.xt suggests ..."

5. Applied Mechanics: An Elementary General Introduction to the Theory of by James Henry Cotterill (1895)
"In the plane motion of two pieces, endways motion of the cylindrical ... to slide endways, while continuing to roll together, the relative movement will now ..."

6. Applied Mechanics: An Elementary General Introduction to the Theory of by James Henry Cotterill (1906)
"In the plane motion of two pieces, endways motion of the cylindrical ... to slide endways, while continuing to roll together, the relative movement will now ..."

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