Dictionaries › English

tablewise

The English word “tablewise” has 2 meanings listed here.

adverb

  1. Positioned in a way that suggests the shape of a table.
  2. Oriented like the communion table, with the ends east and west, as opposed to altarwise.

Etymology

From Middle English tabylwyse, equivalent to table + -wise.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “tablewise” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.