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View synonyms for edgeways
edgeways
/ ˈɛdʒˌwaɪz; ˈɛdʒˌweɪz /
adverb
- with the edge forwards or uppermost
they carried the piano in edgeways
- on, by, with, or towards the edge
he held it edgeways
- get a word in edgewaysget a word in edgeways usually used with a negative to succeed in interrupting a conversation in which someone else is talking incessantly
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I want to speak myself, ef it's a possible thing to git in a word edgeways.
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You never could get a word in edgeways when Livingstone was in the room, anyhow.
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Afterwards while we were walking home Hugh looked edgeways at me.
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There wasn't no man bigger'n Jim, sideways, edgeways, or up an' down.
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The savage raised the axe which he still held in his hand, and brought it down again edgeways.
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