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Lengthways

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

ad. Lengthwise.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. lengthwise

ad. lengthwise

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

ad. In the direction of the length; running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing; in a longitudinal direction. Contrasted with crosswise.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Same as lengthwise.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

ad. in the direction of the length

adj. running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing

Word Usage

"I remember being once shown by an indignant collector a set of utterly and hopelessly destroyed copies of rare tracts connected with the religious disputes of Queen Elizabeth's day, each inlaid and separately bound in a thin volume in the finest morocco, with the title lengthways along the back."

Equivalent

axial linear end-to-end fore and aft running longitudinal lengthwise