Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • From that place or direction; thence.
  • In those parts; there; thereabout.

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Examples

  • They're farmhands, mostly, and house slaves - not much cotton thereaway, you see - and pretty much part of their masters 'families.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • I dinna mind very weel what I was doing, swaggering about the country with dirk and pistol at my belt for five or six months, or thereaway; but I had a weary waking out of a wild dream.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • They're farmhands, mostly, and house slaves - not much cotton thereaway, you see - and pretty much part of their masters 'families.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • They're farmhands, mostly, and house slaves - not much cotton thereaway, you see - and pretty much part of their masters 'families.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • They'd never believe I'd risk it, so they wouldn't look thereaway.

    Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970

  • The Prince of Wales's birthday up the country was celebrated as usual thereaway by the annual horse-races on the Wyambeet course, about fourteen miles from Caddagat.

    My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916

  • There be few wars thereaway, wherein is not a great number of them in both parties.

    The Second Book. Of Warfare 1909

  • --- All evil comes out o 'thereaway --- it's an auld saying and a true; and we'll e'en away there, as if the devil was blawing us south.' '

    The Black Dwarf 1898

  • And he says -- still with his hand up shadin 'his eyes -- ` I don't know, Chips,' says he, ` but I'm most certain, 'says he, ` that one of them boats is thereaway,' pointin 'with his finger away down to leeward.

    The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific Harry Collingwood 1886

  • As for me, I kept my eyes intently fixed upon the grey cloud of vapour that went drifting away to leeward past our weather quarter; and presently, when we had been hove-to about ten minutes, I caught sight of a thickening in the fog thereaway that, even as I looked, began to grow darker and assume a definite shape.

    The Log of a Privateersman Harry Collingwood 1886

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