gatewise
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]gatewise (not comparable)
- Arranged to resemble a gate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- 1876, William Long, Esq., Stonehenge and its Barrows. From the Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine, etc. [With maps and wood-engravings.][1], →OCLC, page 25:
- [...] they are ioyned by two and two together, and every couple sustaineth a third stone lying overthwart, gatewise, which is fastened by the meanes of tenons that enter into mortaises of those stones not closed with any cement.