"edgeways" in the adverb sense
1. edgewise, edgeways
as if by an edge barely
"I could not get a word in edgewise"
2. edgeways, edgewise
with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge
"he sawed the board edgeways"
"held it edgewise"
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