adv. Obs. [f. FRET sb.1 + -WISE.] In the form of a fret; so as to interlace.
1423. Jas. I., Kingis Q., xlvi. In fret-wise couchit [was] with perleis quhite.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, III. xxii. 169. Sometimes you shall find Fishes borne fret-waies, that is to say, fretted or interlaced one ouer another.
1717. Tabor, in Phil. Trans., XXX. 558. Some [bricks] had one of their Sides wav’d … some Fretwise … others had Roses on them well imitated.
