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slopewise

slopewise adverb: in a sloping fashion; obliquely.

Adverb

slopewise (not comparable)

  1. In a sloping fashion; obliquely.
    • The second member or part of the Plough, is called the skeath, and is a peece of woode of two foote and a halfe in length, and of eight inches in breadth, and two inches in thicknesse: it is driuen extreamly hard into the Plough-beame, slopewise, so that ioyned they present this figure.1613, Gervase Markham, The English Husbandman

Origin of slopewise

From slope + -wise.

Questions about slopewise

What does slopewise mean?
Slopewise means in a sloping fashion; obliquely.
What part of speech is slopewise?
Slopewise is an adverb.

Words near slopewise in the dictionary

  1. slopestyle
  2. slopeth
  3. slopewash
  4. slopewashes
  5. slopeways
  6. slopewise
  7. slopey
  8. slopfest
  9. slopfests
  10. slopgame
  11. slopier

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