endlong

• endelong (obsolete)

Old English andlang ( > along), re-formed by popular etymology in Middle English as end + long; partly from Old Norse cognate endlangr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛndlɒŋ/

endlong

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, “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
     So Sir Launcelot let his horse drink, and then he beat on the basin with the butt of his spear so hard with all his might till the bottom fell out, and long he did so, but he saw nothing. Then he rode endlong the gates of that manor nigh half-an-hour.

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endlong (not comparable)

1. From end to end.
2. Continuously.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     The rest he leaves in ground: So takes in hond
     To seeke her endlong both by sea and lond

3. On end.

• Glendon, Longden