Learn English – What do you call this way of stacking rectangular objects on each other

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Sometimes we stack rectangular object like books, paper slips, bricks, video cassettes, etc in a way that one is put in a landscape orientation and the other in a portrait orientation.

What is called this way of stacking?

I want to fill in the blanks with that term:

  • You can stack more books if you put them in a/ an ___ manner.

  • Please make 25 sets of copies of pages 1-10 from this book, then collate the copies so that each set is bundled separately. I suggest to stack them in a/ an___manner.

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Best Answer

Perhaps crisscross: "to form a pattern on (something) with lines that cross each other" or crossways.

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