Edgewise Definition

Edgewise Sentence Examples

• In 1750 Dr Gowan Knight found that the needles of merchant-ships were made of two pieces of steel bent in the middle and united in the shape of a rhombus, and proposed to substitute straight steel bars of small breadth, suspended edgewise and hardened throughout.

• Dean couldn't get a word in edgewise.

• Well, Mrs. Barnett, here's your chance to talk to your father-in-law – if you can fit a word in edgewise.

• Gloxinias, begonias, &c., grow readily from fragments of the leaves cut clean through the thick veins and ribs, and planted edgewise like cuttings.

• Well, Mrs. Barnett, here's your chance to talk to your father-in-law – if you can fit a word in edgewise.