bookwise
See also: book-wise
English
Alternative forms
Adverb
bookwise (not comparable)
- In the manner of a book.
- 1878, Bret Harte, "The Man on the Beach" in Drift From Two Shores:
- [S]he strode to the middle of the room the paper held and folded book-wise in her hands.
- 1977, Theodore Annemann, Annemann's Card Magic, page 22:
- Unknown to the audience, the left fingers have tilted the two red top cards open bookwise...
- 1878, Bret Harte, "The Man on the Beach" in Drift From Two Shores:
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