edgelong en · ADV
Etymology
Alteration of edgeling, equivalent to edge + -long.
Meanings
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(archaic, not-comparable) Towards the edge; along the edge.
In the one there was nothing but some ashes; the other was full of Medals, set edgelong as full as it could be thrust: […]
1914, William Holden Hutton, Highways and Byways in Shakespeare's Country, page 302:Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck edgelong into the ground.
1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):