endwise

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
7

Definition of endwise

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. Upright, or standing on end.
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adv

  1. Upright, or standing on end.
  2. With the end towards the front or towards the observer.
  3. Towards the ends.

adj

  1. On-end; upright; pertaining or relating to the end.
    “... modes to the exclusion of either radial arms or any specific curve, my invention not referring to these modes, but to neutralising the endwise pressure on the axis, as more particularly stated hereinafter in my claim of invention.”
    “But the same slender member in bending and not in endwise compression can stand an extreme fiber stress several ...”

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Etymology

From end + -wise.

Hooks

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