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lengthways
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective lengthways has 1 sense
- lengthways(a = adj.all) lengthwise - running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing; "the lengthwise dimension"
Adverbial lengthways has 1 sense
- lengthways(r = adv.all) lengthwise, longitudinally, longways, longwise - in the direction of the length; "He cut the paper lengthwise"
CIDE DICTIONARY
lengthways, adv.
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 . [1913 Webster]
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