topwise
副词 adv.
英文释义
副词 adv.
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In the manner of a spinning top.
— […] spun topwise by swift floods […]
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At or toward the top.
— 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.
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With the upper part foremost.
— 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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top + -wise
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