Definition of Spirally

1. Adverb. With spirals. "Spirally fluted handles"

Partainyms: Spiral

Definition of Spirally

1. adv. In a spiral form, manner, or direction.

Definition of Spirally

1. Adverb. Having the characteristics of a spiral. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spirally

1. in a spiral manner [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spirally

spiral wrack
spiraled
spiralian
spiralians
spiraling
spiralities
spirality
spiralization
spiralizations
spiralize
spiralized
spiralizes
spiralizing
spiralled
spiralling
spirally (current term)
spiralozooid
spirals
spiralwise
spiramycin
spiramycin I 3-hydroxyl acylase
spiramycins
spiran
spirans
spirant
spiranthy
spirantisation
spirantisations
spirantization
spirantizations

Literary usage of Spirally

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

1. Steam-boiler Construction: A Practical Handbook for Engineers, Boiler-makers by Walter S. Hutton (1891)
"spirally corrugated furnace-tube. Let D = the greatest external diameter of the ... Collapsing-pressure of spirally corrugated furnace-tubes in Ibs. per ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1888)
"spirally-WELDED TUBING. BY JC BAYLES, NEW YORK CITY. IT is seldom the privilege of one who contributes to the Transactions of a technical society, ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The screw is essentially an inclined plane wound spirally around a cylinder, in the form of an advancing groove, known as the screw- thread. ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"... some horizontal and giving access from outside to all the stories, the others mounting spirally in the thickness of the wall to the summit of the dome. ..."

5. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1904)
"(2) Buds spirally arranged on the twigs, or at any rate not simply distichous, or displaced with respect to the leaf-scars. [See note regarding the Birch, ..."

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