sackwise

adv

adv

Etymology From sack + -wise.

In the manner of a sack.

I was being carried along a dimly lighted, tunnel-like place, slung, sackwise, across the shoulder of a Burman.1913, Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:
Some drew donkeys on which were thrown and bumped their wounded, sackwise.1968, Ernest Raymond, The story of my days: an autobiography 1888-1922:

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