Meanings
- not comparableIn the manner of a rabbit.
[…] a starveling cat roasted rabbitwise, or a brace of sparrows deluged in parsley and butter, designated in the bill of fare as pigeons or chickens.
1844, Bentley's Miscellany, volume 15, page 531 more example
When headlights appeared, someone would reel in a black string from his hedge, causing a stuffed white sock in the opposite hedge to slide and jerk, rabbitwise, onto the road so that the driver would just catch a gleam of faltering white in his headlights.
1981, Beth Gutcheon, The New Girls, page 208
Origin
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