"topwise" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "top + -wise",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1910, The Saturday Evening Post (volume 183, issues 1-13, page 51)",
          "text": "[…] spun topwise by swift floods […]"
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        "In the manner of a spinning top."
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          "ref": "1960 June 20, Billboard, page 64:",
          "text": "Grelun Landon, of Hill & Range Songs, Inc., New York, reports things looking up in the country field for his firm, which presently has six sides riding topwise in the charts.",
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        "At or toward the top."
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          "ref": "2006, David Taylor, Pride of Place: A Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing, page 55:",
          "text": "They had forted up their house, cutting the bottom-land timbers, lopping off their limbs, and driving the tree trunks into the ground topwise, to make a stockade big enough to hold them and some neighbors — the ones willing to stay there.",
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      "glosses": [
        "With the upper part foremost."
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          "upper"
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          "foremost",
          "foremost"
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      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
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  "word": "topwise"
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "text": "[…] spun topwise by swift floods […]"
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        "At or toward the top."
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