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