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edgelong

adv

Etymology

Alteration of edgeling, equivalent to edge + -long.

  1. inherited from *h₂eḱ-✻
  2. inherited from *agjō✻
  3. inherited from *aggju✻
  4. inherited from eċġ
  5. inherited from egge
  6. suffixed as edgelong — “edge + -long”

Definitions

  1. Towards the edge

    Towards the edge; along the edge.

    • Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck edgelong into the ground.
    • In the one there was nothing but some ashes; the other was full of Medals, set edgelong as full as it could be thrust: […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for edgelong. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA