"frontways" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From front + -ways.",
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1820, Basil Kennett, Romæ antiquæ notitia: or, The antiquities of Rome, page 242:",
          "text": "But, because the naval as well as the land army consisted of four legions, and accordingly the ships made four divisions, two of these are yet behind; of which the third fleet, or third legion, was drawn up frontways in the rear of the first and second, and so, stretching along from point to point, composed a triangle, whereof the third line was the base.",
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        {
          "ref": "1919, Arthur James Schuettner, The University of Illinois plan to stimulate interest in physical education, page 18:",
          "text": "Upper grip; jump to side support frontways; swing left leg forward over bar outside of left hand; fall back to outer knee-hand hang and with the next swing execute an outer knee swing-up forward; return left leg to side support frontways[…]",
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        "towards the front; forward"
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          "forward",
          "forward#English"
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  "word": "frontways"
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          "ref": "1820, Basil Kennett, Romæ antiquæ notitia: or, The antiquities of Rome, page 242:",
          "text": "But, because the naval as well as the land army consisted of four legions, and accordingly the ships made four divisions, two of these are yet behind; of which the third fleet, or third legion, was drawn up frontways in the rear of the first and second, and so, stretching along from point to point, composed a triangle, whereof the third line was the base.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1919, Arthur James Schuettner, The University of Illinois plan to stimulate interest in physical education, page 18:",
          "text": "Upper grip; jump to side support frontways; swing left leg forward over bar outside of left hand; fall back to outer knee-hand hang and with the next swing execute an outer knee swing-up forward; return left leg to side support frontways[…]",
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        "towards the front; forward"
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