Meaning of fingerwise | Babel Free

Definitions

In the manner of fingers from a hand; spreading out in several narrow parts.

not-comparable

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Examples

“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.”

“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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