lengthways, adv.
(ˈlɛŋθweɪz)
[f. as prec. with advb. -s.]
In the direction of the length.
| 1599 H. Buttes Dyets drie Dinner M 4 b, Cut lengthwayes in halfes, and applied to the soles of the feete. 1634–5 Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 45 A long table..placed length⁓ways in an aisle which stands over across the church. 1753 Hogarth Anal. Beauty x. 53 Imagine the horn..to be cut lengthways by a very fine saw. 1822 Coleridge Lett., Convers. etc. xxvi. II. 68 A hollow tube split lengthways. 1865 Lubbock Preh. Times xv. (1878) 561 The ornaments of the chiefs are actually pierced lengthways. |
† b. quasi-n. Obs.
| 1702 Providence Rec. (1894) V. 168 The lengthwayes of the said land lieing Eastward and westward. 1703 Ibid. 150 The lengthwayes of this sd Piece of land last mentioned Also lieth Northward and southward. |