endways

endways
/end"wayz'/, adv.
1. on end: We set the table endways in order to fix the legs.
2. with the end upward or forward.
3. toward the ends or end; lengthwise.
4. with ends touching; end to end.
Also, endwise /end"wuyz'/.
[1565-75; END1 + -WAYS]

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