leftwise

English

Etymology

left +‎ -wise

Adverb

leftwise (not comparable)

1. (rare) By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise.
   • 1890, G. C. Macaulay, The History of Herodotus, translated into English:

     and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise.

   • 2004, Christian P. Robert, George Casella, Monte Carlo statistical methods, page 336:

     Similarly, his "doubling procedure" consists in the same random starting interval […] whose length is doubled (leftwise or rightwise at random) recursively till both ends are outside the slice.

Adjective

leftwise

1. (rare) Leftward, on the left side.
   • 2006, Arne Røkkum, Nature, ritual, and society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands, page 151:

     The leftwise action aims at what drifts out of the nunka domain of the nefarious. Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise.

See also

• rightwise

Anagrams

• wet flies, wifelets