flatlong
adverb
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adv
Etymology: From alternation of the original flatling, by assimilating to long. More at flatling.
- With the flat side downward; not edgewise.
“Antonio: What a blow was there given! Sebastian: An it had not fall'n flat-long.”
“Yet the pittiless sword had such pity of so precious an object, that at first it did but hit flatlong”