English

Adverb

palewise ‎(not comparable)

1. (heraldry, archaic) In the manner of pales, divided by perpendicular lines.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.120:

     Sheer limestone cliffs rose cannellate and palewise and laced with caves where small forktailed birds set forth against a sky reaching blue and moteless to the sun itself.

Synonyms

• paleways