1
[ adverb ] with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge

Synonyms

edgeways

Examples

"he sawed the board edgeways" "held it edgewise"

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

The curb was a line of stone laid edgewise in the dirt and tilted this way and that by frost in the ground or the roots of trees .

2
[ adverb ] as if by an edge; barely

Synonyms

edgeways

Examples

"I could not get a word in edgewise"

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