edgewise's Usage Examples:

Dean couldn't get a word in edgewise.

- For switchboard use i n Ammeter Kelvin ' electric supply stations where space is valuable, James White instruments of the type called edgewise ammeters Ltd.

that of a system of laws which governs the many things?In 1750 Dr Gowan Knight found that the needles of merchant-ships were made of two pieces of steel bent in the middle and united in the shape of a rhombus, and proposed to substitute straight steel bars of small breadth, suspended edgewise and hardened throughout.

For the measurement of voltages in continuous current generating stations, movable coil voltmeters are much employed, generally constructed then in the "edgewise" pattern (fig.

Barnett, here's your chance to talk to your father-in-law – if you can fit a word in edgewise.

), travelling in northwest Arabia, saw stones of granite in a row and " flagstones set edgewise " (though he does not regard these as religious), also " round heaps, perhaps barrows," and " dry-built round chambers," which may be ancient tombs.

In 1750 Dr Gowan Knight found that the needles of merchant-ships were made of two pieces of steel bent in the middle and united in the shape of a rhombus, and proposed to substitute straight steel bars of small breadth, suspended edgewise and hardened throughout.

, grow readily from fragments of the leaves cut clean through the thick veins and ribs, and planted edgewise like cuttings.

Barnett, here's your chance to talk to your father-in-law – if you can fit a word in edgewise.

Some men have a hard time letting their date get a word in edgewise when they first meet someone they like.

Synonyms:

edgeways,

Antonyms:

None