"flatlong" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From alternation of the original flatling, by assimilating to long. More at flatling.",
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      "expansion": "flatlong (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:",
          "text": "Antonio: What a blow was there given!\nSebastian: An it had not fall'n flat-long.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "The New Arcadia",
          "ref": "a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Yet the pittiless sword had such pity of so precious an object, that at first it did but hit flatlong",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "With the flat side downward; not edgewise."
      ],
      "id": "en-flatlong-en-adv-bboduZca",
      "links": [
        [
          "flat",
          "flat"
        ],
        [
          "downward",
          "downward"
        ],
        [
          "edgewise",
          "edgewise"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) With the flat side downward; not edgewise."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "flat-long"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "plašmjá",
          "sense": "with the flat side downward",
          "word": "плашмя́"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flatlong"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From alternation of the original flatling, by assimilating to long. More at flatling.",
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      },
      "expansion": "flatlong (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        {
          "ref": "1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:",
          "text": "Antonio: What a blow was there given!\nSebastian: An it had not fall'n flat-long.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "The New Arcadia",
          "ref": "a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Yet the pittiless sword had such pity of so precious an object, that at first it did but hit flatlong",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "With the flat side downward; not edgewise."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flat",
          "flat"
        ],
        [
          "downward",
          "downward"
        ],
        [
          "edgewise",
          "edgewise"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) With the flat side downward; not edgewise."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "flat-long"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "plašmjá",
      "sense": "with the flat side downward",
      "word": "плашмя́"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flatlong"
}