adv. [f. as prec. with advb. -s.] In the direction of the length.
1599. H. Buttes, Dyets drie Dinner, M 4 b. Cut lengthwayes in halfes, and applied to the soles of the feete.
1634–5. Brereton, Trav. (Chetham Soc.), 45. A long table … placed lengthways in an aisle which stands over across the church.
1753. Hogarth, Anal. Beauty, x. 53. Imagine the horn … to be cut lengthways by a very fine saw.
1822. Coleridge, Lett., Convers., etc. xxvi. II. 68. A hollow tube split lengthways.
1865. Lubbock, Preh. Times, xv. (1878), 561. The ornaments of the chiefs are actually pierced lengthways.
† b. quasi-sb. Obs.
1702. Providence Rec. (1894), V. 168. The lengthwayes of the said land lieing Eastward and westward. Ibid. (1703), 150. The lengthwayes of this sd Piece of land last mentioned Also lieth Northward and southward.
