Meaning of on end | Babel Free

Definitions

1. without interruption, without stopping, continuously
   idiomatic
2. upright; erect; endways
   dated

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Examples

“These batteries last for hours on end.”

“The arrangement of some seats facing and some one behind the other, bus fashion, seems a sensible compromise; I am one of those who do not enjoy staring at my fellow travellers for perhaps hours on end.”

“How silent, on the other hand, lie all Cotton-trades and such like; not a steeple-chimney yet got on end from sea to sea!”

“When he was dried he struggled into his shirt. Then, ruddy and shiny, with hair on end, and his flannelette shirt hanging over his pit-trousers, he stood warming the garments he was going to put on.”

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