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Edgeways   /ˈɛdʒwˌeɪz/   Listen
Edgeways

adverb
1.
As if by an edge; barely.  Synonym: edgewise.
2.
With the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge.  Synonym: edgewise.  "Held it edgewise"






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"Edgeways" Quotes from Famous Books



... country people have in speaking of private affairs: "Well, she is my Aunt Em'line, Mrs. Purdon is, though I don't hardly ever call her that. You see, Aunt Emma brought me up, and she and Aunt Em'line don't have anything to do with each other. They were twins, and when they were girls they got edgeways over 'Niram's father, when 'Niram was a baby and his father was a young widower and come courting. Then Aunt Em'line married him, and Aunt Emma never spoke ...
— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various

... as used to supply us with dialect—what a face he had! It was like a mouth-organ turned edgeways; and he looked as hollow as the big drum, but warn't half so round and noisy. You can't have dwindled down to that, surely! I couldn't bear to see your hump and pars pendula (that's dog Latin) shrunk up like dried almonds, and titivated ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various



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