Word Study
longways
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun longways has 1 sense
- longways(n = noun.act) longways dance - country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other; Array is a kind of contra danse, contradance, contredanse, country-dance, country dancing
has particulars: reel, virginia reel
Adverbial longways has 1 sense
- longways(r = adv.all) lengthways, lengthwise, longitudinally, longwise - in the direction of the length; "He cut the paper lengthwise"
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