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topwise en · ADV

Etymology

top + -wise

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In the manner of a spinning top.
    • […] spun topwise by swift floods […] 1910, The Saturday Evening Post (volume 183, issues 1-13, page 51)
  2. (not-comparable) At or toward the top.
    • Grelun Landon, of Hill & Range Songs, Inc., New York, reports things looking up in the country field for his firm, which presently has six sides riding topwise in the charts. 1960 June 20, Billboard, page 64:
  3. (not-comparable) With the upper part foremost.
    • They had forted up their house, cutting the bottom-land timbers, lopping off their limbs, and driving the tree trunks into the ground topwise, to make a stockade big enough to hold them and some neighbors — the ones willing to stay there. 2006, David Taylor, Pride of Place: A Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing, page 55: