Hypertext Webster Gateway: "edgewise"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Edgeways \Edge"ways\, Edgewise \Edge"wise\, adv.
With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.
Glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways. --Sir W.
Scott.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
edgewise
adv 1: with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge; "he
sawed the board edgeways"; "held it edgewise" [syn: {edgeways}]
2: as if by an edge; barely; "I could not get a word in
edgewise" [syn: {edgeways}]
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