endlong

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛndlɒŋ/

Preposition

1. Along (as opposed to across), from end to end of.
   • Late 14^thc.: Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

     Looke what day that endelong Britayne / Ye remove alle the rokkes, stoon by stoon

   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:8.7?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter vij], in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:

     So sir launcelot lete his hors drynke / and sythen he bete on the bacyn with the butte of his spere so hard with al his myȝt tyl the bottom felle oute / and longe he dyd soo but he sawe noo thynge Thenne he rode endlong the gates of that manoyre nyghe half an houre

Adverb

endlong (not comparable)

1. From end to end.
2. Continuously.
3. On end.

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