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fingerwise

fingerwise adverb: in the manner of fingers from a hand; spreading out in several narrow parts.

Adverb

fingerwise (not comparable)

  1. In the manner of fingers from a hand; spreading out in several narrow parts.
    • In this way alone too, it seems to me, can one gain a clear and consistent idea of the valley itself as an organic whole, with the various lateral glens which open out fingerwise on every side of it as its component members.1889, The English Illustrated Magazine, volume 6
    • The valleys make natural and not ill-graded highways from the prairie to the Wisconsin River, while the ranges of bluffs separating them appear like promontories running out fingerwise from the main plateau[…]1921, Wisconsin magazine of history, volume 4

Origin of fingerwise

From finger + -wise.

Questions about fingerwise

What does fingerwise mean?
Fingerwise means in the manner of fingers from a hand; spreading out in several narrow parts.
What part of speech is fingerwise?
Fingerwise is an adverb.

Words near fingerwise in the dictionary

  1. fingertipsful
  2. Fingerville
  3. fingerwear
  4. fingerwidth
  5. fingerwidths
  6. fingerwise
  7. fingerwork
  8. fingerwort
  9. fingery
  10. Finghall
  11. fingie

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