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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adv
1: as if by an edge; barely; "I could not get a word in edgewise" [syn: edgewise, edgeways]
2: with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge; "he sawed the board edgeways"; "held it edgewise" [syn: edgeways, edgewise]

Merriam Webster's

adverb Date: 1566 chiefly British sideways

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv. (also edgewise) 1 with the edge uppermost or towards the viewer. 2 edge to edge. Phrases and idioms: get a word in edgeways contribute to a conversation when the dominant speaker pauses briefly.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Edgeways Edge"ways, Edgewise Edge"wise, adv. With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge. Glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways. --Sir W. Scott.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Note: The spelling 'edgewise' is also used, especially in American English. If you say that you cannot get a word in edgeways, you are complaining that you do not have the opportunity to speak because someone else is talking so much. (INFORMAL) He spent all the time talking and they could not get a word in edgeways. PHRASE: V inflects [disapproval]