English

Alternative forms

• endelong (obsolete)

Preposition

endlong

1. Along (as opposed to across), from end to end of.
   • Late 14^thc.: Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

     Looke what day that endelong Britayne / Ye remove alle the rokkes, stoon by stoon

   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter vij, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:

     So sir launcelot lete his hors drynke / and sythen he bete on the bacyn with the butte of his spere so hard with al his myȝt tyl the bottom felle oute / and longe he dyd soo but he sawe noo thynge Thenne he rode endlong the gates of that manoyre nyghe half an houre

Adverb

endlong ‎(not comparable)

1. From end to end.