adv. Also square-wise; 6 squyre-, 6–7 squirewise. [f. SQUARE a.]
† 1. After the fashion of a carpenter’s square; at right angles, rectangularly. Obs.
1546. State Papers Hen. VIII., XI. 231. 2 boordes [= tables] being set squyrewise.
1571. Digges, Pantom., I. xviii. F b. Then go from it Orthogonally or Squirewise … 200 foote.
1593. T. Fale, Art of Dialling, 13. Let the line of Contingence be drawn squarewise by the point F.
1598. R. Haydocke, trans. Lomazzo, I. 111. From which point … vnto the great gate at the west ende, it woulde be extended square wise so much more.
1669. Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., VII. xxvii. 40. Draw the Line FBA squire wise to the Substiler Line.
1692. Capt. Smith’s Seaman’s Gram., II. 156. Two Sticks … joyned together, Square-wise.
1725. Fam. Dict., s.v. Cutting, You must upon some Occasions cut Square-wise, and that is to be done to bushy dwarf Trees.
2. In the form of a square; squarely.
1611. Speed, Theat. Gt. Brit. (1614), 125/1. It lieth somewhat square-wise, not much different in length and breadth.
1725. Fam. Dict., s.v. Watering, You shall … knock four or five strong Stakes into the bottom of the Water, setting them Squarewise.
1853. G. J. Cayley, Las Alforjas, II. 254. By folding a silk handkerchief square-wise into a broad belt.
1891. Cayley, Math. Papers (1897), XIII. 179. A circle is squarewise contractible into a point.
