sackwise en · ADV
Etymology
From sack + -wise.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In the manner of a sack.
I was being carried along a dimly lighted, tunnel-like place, slung, sackwise, across the shoulder of a Burman.
1913, Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:Some drew donkeys on which were thrown and bumped their wounded, sackwise.
1968, Ernest Raymond, The story of my days: an autobiography 1888-1922: