Definition of "lengthwise" []

• Of, along, or in reference to the direction of the length; longitudinally. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "He slid the knife in lengthwise beneath the skin and then ran a straight incision down the spine all the way to the tail, four feet distant."
• "The baby started frantically shaking his head back and forth – the only part of his body free to move – as the doctor used another clamp to crush the foreskin lengthwise, where he then cut."
• "Cut each beet in lengthwise quarters, and each quarter into 3 wedges."