rabbitwise
advEtymology From rabbit + -wise.
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In the manner of a rabbit.
- […] a starveling cat roasted rabbitwise, or a brace of sparrows deluged in parsley and butter, designated in the bill of fare as pigeons or chickens.1844, Bentley's Miscellany, volume 15, page 53:
- When headlights appeared, someone would reel in a black string from his hedge, causing a stuffed white sock in the opposite hedge to slide and jerk, rabbitwise, onto the road so that the driver would just catch a gleam of faltering white in his headlights.1981, Beth Gutcheon, The New Girls, page 208: