lengthways definitions

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing; "the lengthwise dimension" [syn: lengthwise, lengthways] [ant: crosswise] adv
1: in the direction of the length; "He cut the paper lengthwise" [syn: lengthways, lengthwise, longwise, longways, longitudinally]

Merriam Webster's

adverb Date: 1599 lengthwise

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv. in a direction parallel with a thing's length.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lengthways Length"ways` (-w[=a]z`), Lengthwise Length"wise` (-w[imac]z`), adv. In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

or lengthwise Lengthways or lengthwise means in a direction or position along the length of something. Cut the aubergines in half lengthways... ADV: ADV after v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

ad.; (also lengthwise) Longitudinally.