alength

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adverb

lengthwise

Scrabble 11

Meanings

adverbalength (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoletelengthwise
    1 more example

    1550, Thomas Nicolls (Translator), Thucydides, The hystory writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans, Book 4, pg. Cxviii Afterwards they fastened yt wyth yrone at bothe endes. And also alengthe, very artyfyciallye, aftere manner of a pipe, and to one of the endes they fastened wyth chaynes of yronne a greate cawdrone of brasse (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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APA

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Chicago

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