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bandolierwise

adv · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˌbændəˈlɪə(ɹ)waɪz/

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adv

Meaning 1

In the manner of a bandolier, looped over the shoulder on one side and under the arm on the other.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • 1612, attributed to Thomas Dekker, "O Per Se O" in A. B. Judges (ed.), The Elizabethan Underworld - a Collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads, Routledge, 1930, reprinted 2002, p. 371, https://books.google.ca/books?id=3e77AQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The abram cove is a lusty strong rogue, who walketh with a slade about his quarroms trining to his hams, bandolierwise, for all the world as cutpurses and thieves wear their sheets to the gallows, in which their trulls are to bury them.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From bandolier + -wise.