A fourth man, the "Loader," puts the sods upon a wheel-barrow, always two rows of six each, one upon the other, and- A fifth, the "Wheeler," removes the load to the drying ground, and with some help from the Bunker, disposes them Flatwise in rows of 16 sods wide, which run at right angles to the ditch, and, beginning at a little more than 10 feet from the latter, extend 50 feet.
"Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel"
Samuel William Johnson
My method, let me tell you, was this; I climbed to the highest part of the ship, where I could stand clear, having first put up my burden, which you have there; and then getting that on my back near my shoulders, I took the two cords you see hang loose to it in my two hands, and extending my graundee, leaped off Flatwise with my face towards the water; when instantly playing two or three good strokes with my graundee, I was out of danger; now, if I had found the bundle too heavy to make my first strokes with, I should directly have turned on my back, dropped my bundle, and floated in my graundee to the ship again, as you once saw me float on the lake."
"Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.)"
Robert Paltock Commentator: A. H. Bullen
Nine chances out of ten, if Donnegan had fallen Flatwise upon this alert enemy, he would have received those knees in the pit of his own stomach and instantly been paralyzed.
"Gunman's Reckoning"
Max Brand