adv. Also 7 longstwayes. [f. LONG a. + WAY sb. with adverbial s.] In the direction of the length of a thing; longwise, lengthways; longitudinally.
1588. A. Perne, Will, in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), I. 28. The Colledge Librairie … to be newe builded at the east end of the Masters Lodginge longewayes towardes the Streate.
1601. Sir W. Cornwallis, Ess., II. xli. (1631), 181. Man … his definition must be a creature with two legs made long-wayes.
1639. T. de Gray, Compl. Horsem., 91. Give fire to the spaven both longst-wayes and crosse-wayes.
1683. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., Printing, xxiv. ¶ 7. He Folds a sheet of the Paper he is to Work long-ways, and broad-ways.
1705. A. Van Leeuwenhoek in Phil. Trans., XXV. 1844. The Bark of the said Wood can’t be stripp’d off longways.
1831. T. Hope, Ess. Origin Man, II. 399. Uneven bearing of the sole both longways and broadways.
1847. Grote, Greece, II. liii. (1862), IV. 486. A channel through it long-ways from end to end.
1899. Daily News, 13 Dec., 8/3. To have alternately to hold the book up longways and sideways.
† b. quasi-prep. Obs.
1656. Finett, For. Ambass., 11. Another Table placed longwayes the chamber.
