English edit

Etymology edit

rectangular +‎ -wise

Adverb edit

rectangularwise (not comparable)

  1. In a rectangular orientation.
    • 1857, John Booker, A history of the ancient chapels of Didsbury and Chorlton in Manchester parish, page 125:
      The principal front is 261 feet in length and 40 feet in height, with a tower in the centre surmounted by a lantern rising to the height of 92 feet; the tower is supported by three-stage buttresses with plain set-offs, placed rectangularwise []