topwise

English

Etymology

top +‎ -wise

Adverb

topwise (not comparable)

  1. In the manner of a spinning top.
    • 1910, The Saturday Evening Post (volume 183, issues 1-13, page 51)
      […] spun topwise by swift floods […]
  2. At or toward the top.
    • 1960 June 20, Billboard (page 64)
      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.
  3. With the upper part foremost.
    • 2006, David Taylor, Pride of Place: A Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing (page 55)
      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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