adv. [f. BREAST sb. + -WISE.] Side by side, abreast.
1620. Dekker, Dream (1860), 24. So wide That ten caroches (breastwise) in may ride.
1673. Ray, Notes of Husb., 130. He uses to plow with his Oxen endwayes or all in one file … whereas breastwise it is very hard evenly to match them.
1849. Grote, Greece, II. xxxviii. V. 24. Two lines of ships … were moored across the strait breastwise.
