"pierwise" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "pier + -wise",
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      "expansion": "pierwise (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        {
          "ref": "1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 61",
          "text": "At the edge of the Dam, old Rosey, to avoid the treacherous mud, began, with humped back and hoofs close together, to walk along the plank that pier-wise extended to the deeper water.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In the manner of a pier."
      ],
      "id": "en-pierwise-en-adv-XE1RG1a6",
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        [
          "pier",
          "pier"
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      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
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    }
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  "word": "pierwise"
}

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        "2": "pier",
        "3": "wise"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "pier + -wise",
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      },
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      "name": "en-adv"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        {
          "ref": "1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 61",
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        }
      ],
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        "In the manner of a pier."
      ],
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        [
          "pier",
          "pier"
        ]
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "pierwise"
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