topwise
Adverb
In the manner of a spinning top.
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[…] spun topwise by swift floods […]
At or toward the top.
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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.
With the upper part foremost.
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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.