Fingerwise

Quick meaning: Fingerwise is an adverb meaning In the manner of fingers from a hand; spreading out in several narrow parts.

Meaning

In the manner of fingers from a hand; spreading out in several narrow parts.

Example Sentences

The valleys make natural and not ill-graded highways from the prairie to the Wisconsin River, while the ranges of bluffs separating them appear like promontories running out fingerwise from the main plateau[…]

In this way alone too, it seems to me, can one gain a clear and consistent idea of the valley itself as an organic whole, with the various lateral glens which open out fingerwise on every side of it as its component members.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fistwise, wide-handed, pincerwise, spreadingly, forkwise, fourhandedly.

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