edgelong

English

Etymology

Alteration of edgeling, equivalent to edge +‎ -long.

Adverb

edgelong (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Towards the edge; along the edge.
   • 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:

     Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck edgelong into the ground.

   • 1914, William Holden Hutton, Highways and Byways in Shakespeare's Country, page 302:

     In the one there was nothing but some ashes; the other was full of Medals, set edgelong as full as it could be thrust: […]

References

• “edgelong”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• no-legged