"lapwise" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From lap + -wise.",
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "text": "Despite their name, laptops seem to rarely be used lapwise.",
          "type": "example"
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          "ref": "1986, Peter De Vries, Peckham's Marbles, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 91:",
          "text": "The man rushed through it just in time to leave beside the road a volcanic eruption that to have been the recipient of which, lapwise, would have made the trip memorable indeed.",
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        {
          "ref": "1991, Robert Hitt Neill, Don't Fish Under the Dingleberry Tree (And Other Philosophies of Life), Leland, M.S.: Mississippi River Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 201:",
          "text": "Thank goodness the cat took about half the coffee—which she certainly deserved. Things could have been a lot worse for me had she not been situated exactly where she was, lapwise, and anyway her hair grew back rather quickly.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 December 19, Molly Young, “My Evening at Reading Rhythms, a Party for Bookish Introverts”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-29:",
          "text": "Reading postures varied. Some attendees sat cross-legged with a book resting lapwise. Others were curled up on a sofa.",
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      "glosses": [
        "On a lap."
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  "etymology_text": "From lap + -wise.",
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "text": "Despite their name, laptops seem to rarely be used lapwise.",
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          "ref": "1986, Peter De Vries, Peckham's Marbles, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 91:",
          "text": "The man rushed through it just in time to leave beside the road a volcanic eruption that to have been the recipient of which, lapwise, would have made the trip memorable indeed.",
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          "ref": "1991, Robert Hitt Neill, Don't Fish Under the Dingleberry Tree (And Other Philosophies of Life), Leland, M.S.: Mississippi River Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 201:",
          "text": "Thank goodness the cat took about half the coffee—which she certainly deserved. Things could have been a lot worse for me had she not been situated exactly where she was, lapwise, and anyway her hair grew back rather quickly.",
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          "text": "Reading postures varied. Some attendees sat cross-legged with a book resting lapwise. Others were curled up on a sofa.",
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        "On a lap."
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