fingerwise

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English

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Etymology

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From finger +‎ -wise.

Adverb

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fingerwise (not comparable)

  1. In the manner of fingers from a hand; spreading out in several narrow parts.
    • 1889, The English Illustrated Magazine, volume 6:
      In this way alone too, it seems to me, can one gain a clear and consistent idea of the valley itself as an organic whole, with the various lateral glens which open out fingerwise on every side of it as its component members.
    • 1921, Wisconsin magazine of history, volume 4:
      The valleys make natural and not ill-graded highways from the prairie to the Wisconsin River, while the ranges of bluffs separating them appear like promontories running out fingerwise from the main plateau []

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