Meaning of topwise | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In the manner of a spinning top.
   not-comparable
2. At or toward the top.
   not-comparable
3. With the upper part foremost.
   not-comparable

Examples

“[…] spun topwise by swift floods […]”

“Grelun Landon, of Hill & Range Songs, Inc., New York, reports things looking up in the country field for his firm, which presently has six sides riding topwise in the charts.”

“They had forted up their house, cutting the bottom-land timbers, lopping off their limbs, and driving the tree trunks into the ground topwise, to make⟳ a stockade big enough to hold⟳ them and some neighbors — the ones willing to stay⟳ there.”

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