tuskwise
adverb
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adv
Etymology: From tusk + -wise.
- In the manner of tusks.
“Nay without this law / Of mandom, ye would perish, — beast by beast / Devouring, — tree by tree, with strangling roots / And trunks set tuskwise.”
“...part of the jaw bone of a whale, propped up tuskwise.”